Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

There’s a lack of people in power that are motivated by the idea of helping people.

My mom was on the United Way group that decides how to allocate the money and looks at all the different charities and makes the very hard decisions about where that pool of funds is going to go.

Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

We know that in tough times, cynicism is just another way to give up, and in the military, we consider cynicism or giving up simply as forms of cowardice.

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

My mother always wanted to give back.

Real living is living for others.

The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.

The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice.

I was never focused on me, me, me all the time. I was always focused on somebody else.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one’s soul.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‚If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?‘ But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‚If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?‘

The generous Critic fann’d the Poet’s fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

I am the most helpful and open up doors for everyone and I like to share.

You know, T can stand for anything. T stand for working hard. T stand for loving thy neighbor. T stand for feeding the hungry. T stand for just working, working, working, being happy on the set, you know, lifting everybody’s spirits. T stands for just a nice guy.

A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

I think you have a moral responsibility when you’ve been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

You make more money if you’re generous.

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Charity bestowed upon those who are worthy of it is like good seed sown on a good soil that yields an abundance of fruits. But alms given to those who are yet under the tyrannical yoke of the passions are like seed deposited in a bad soil. The passions of the receiver of the alms choke, as it were, the growth of merits.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.

Learning to live for others isn’t something that just comes naturally to anybody. You have to train yourself to do it.

There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn’t greedy. It was mine, my girl’s, my mom’s. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we’re very modest. But that’s not greedy. That’s nice, right?

I have to live for others and not for myself: that’s middle-class morality.

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this – that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made – not to understand – but to feel – as crime.

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

We are not cisterns made for hoarding, we are channels made for sharing.

My father worked for a children’s home called Dr. Barnardo’s Homes. They’re a charity.

Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.

A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it’s less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.

The idea that you encourage companies to take their innovative thinkers and think about the most needy – even beyond the market opportunities – that’s something that appropriately ought to be done.

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.

I’m always attracted to people who interest me. They’ve got to be people who are really true to themselves somehow, and who are always trying to do something that makes their life more interesting, or better, or something for somebody else. They’re interested in people.

We just cannot worry about ourselves.

Stay humble and be concerned for the less fortunate.

What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

I tell everybody, I get so much because I give so much. I give freely, I give all my time, give all my money, give all of my soul. I try to motivate people. I try to inspire them.

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

The only big things I’ve purchased are my dad’s heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.