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

I find the difference, for me, between having no money and having quite a bit is that the bills get bigger. And that’s it. The lifestyle doesn’t change.

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there’s a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

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

If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

I always think if you are asking somebody for something it is a good idea to give them something first.

Money doesn’t make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it’s a subject below their social standing.

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

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.

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

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory for people with generosity of spirit. Beware.

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don’t buy a single vote more than is necessary. I’ll be damned if I’m going to pay for a landslide.

A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.

The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.

Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance had shifted decisively into the hands of the upstart across the sea, the United States, by far the most powerful and wealthy society in world history.

Many people aren’t rich because they’re liars.

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.

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

I always joke that my kids‘ favorite holiday is Father’s Day. They love the way I celebrate the occasion by writing each of them a thank-you letter and a generous check. It’s my way of letting them know how much I appreciate the great pleasure and privilege of being their dad.

Money doesn’t mean anything to me. I’ve made a lot of money, but I want to enjoy life and not stress myself building my bank account. I give lots away and live simply, mostly out of a suitcase in hotels. We all know that good health is much more important.

Unfortunately, in a recession, the people who suffer the most aren’t the rich, but the wanna-be rich and the poor.

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

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

Wealthy men can’t live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

The poorest people are the sweetest people.

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

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.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

I mean, I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money.

We need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old – and that’s the criterion by which I’ll be selecting my judges.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

Money doesn’t talk, it swears.

Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.

I grew up in the east side of Detroit in an area where there was very little, except for a lot of scarcity, poverty and hunger. I never woke up saying, ‚I’m an orphan again today, isn’t this terrible? Poor me.‘

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn’t got any.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

The highly functional infrastructure that surrounds us, particularly in the West, is a gift from our ancestors: the comparatively uncorrupt political and economic systems, the technology, the wealth, the lifespan, the freedom, the luxury, and the opportunity.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.