Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.

We just cannot worry about ourselves.

What charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility – America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don’t live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

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

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

My father always taught me that when you help other people, then God will give you double. And that’s what has really happened to me. When I have helped other people who are in need, God has helped me more.

As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.

Good jokes are gems. A good idea is hard to come by. I couldn’t give them to someone else, even for money. It just wouldn’t seem right.

It’s amazing how people will give when you don’t ask. Many of them send money because they believe in the message.

Encouragement to others is something everyone can give. Somebody needs what you have to give. It may not be your money; it may be your time. It may be your listening ear. It may be your arms to encourage. It may be your smile to uplift. Who knows?

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

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

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

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

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

The funny thing is people won’t let me pay for things. I’ll be in a restaurant and the manager will say, ‚Oh no, it’s on the house.‘

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

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work many more hours per week than most people that have jobs at trying to intelligently give away that money in fields that they particularly care about.

American taxpayers have been generous to Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

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

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

Generous people can become more generous as they become richer, giving away vast fortunes to worthwhile causes as Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are doing.

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

My mother was a full-time mother. She didn’t have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences… everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, loving – she’s better than me.

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.

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

My mother always wanted to give back.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.

Giving a poor person money keeps them poor.

That’s the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me.

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

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.

It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

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

Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.

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

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

I always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hospital works first hand was truly beautiful. It doesn’t feel like a regular hospital all dreary and sad. It’s a colorful, beautiful, comfortable, fun place to live and the energy is wonderful.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

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.

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.

Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.

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

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.