Quotes by Philanthropists

The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well and when you find it put your whole soul into it-every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.
John D. Rockefeller III
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his life-time for the good of the community.
Andrew Carnegie
I have no complex about wealth. I have worked hard for my money producing things people need. I believe that the able industrial leader who creates wealth and employment is more worthy of historical notice than politicians or soldiers.
Paul Getty
I was born into it and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there like air or food or any other element. The only question with wealth is what you do with it.
John D. Rockefeller
The only question with wealth is what you do with it.
John D. Rockefeller
Every woman dreams of her own political career and her own place in life.
Raisa M. Gorbachev
If I only had a little humility I'd be perfect.
Ted Turner
All that I have accomplished ... has been by that plodding patient persevering process of accretion which builds the ant heap particle by particle thought by thought fact by fact.
Elihu Burritt
Fortunate are the people whose roots are deep.
Agnes Meyer
Youth is after all just a moment but it is the moment the spark that you always carry in your heart.
Raisa M. Gorbachev
When I look to the future it's so bright it burns my eyes.
Oprah Winfrey
When I look at the future it's so bright it burns my eyes.
Oprah Winfrey
Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
Oprah Winfrey
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Danny Thomas
Character is the real foundation of all worthwhile success.
John Hays Hammond
Sometimes success is due less to ability than to zeal.
Charles Buxton
Success is due less to ability than to zeal.
Charles Buxton
Find a need and fill it.
Ruth Stafford Peale
The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
Andrew Carnegie
God can dream a bigger dream for you than you can dream for yourself and your role on Earth is to attach yourself to that divine force and let yourself be released to it.
Oprah Winfrey
It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are-not necessarily a religious feeling but deep down the spirit within-that you can begin to take control.
Oprah Winfrey
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
Andrew Carnegie
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
Lord Dewar
There is a need for heroism in American life today.
Agnes Meyer
The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what interests you and that you can do well and put your whole soul into it-every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.
John D. Rockefeller III
There are three answers to prayer: yes no and wait awhile. It must be recognized that no is an answer.
Ruth Stafford Peale
Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.
Ruth Graham
Prayer is not eloquence but earnestness not the definition of helplessness but the feeling of it not figures of speech but earnestness of soul.
Hannah More
Here is where some entrepreneurs fail. They are filled with creative juices and total commitment to their business but too often they don't understand that they must also be managers administrators even gofers-at least for a while.
Lillian Vernon
As I learnt very early in my life in Whitehall the acid test of any political question is: What is the alternative?
Lord Trent
Everyone has got it in him if he will only make up his mind and stick at it. None of us is born with a stop-valve on his powers or with a set limit to his capacities. There is no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.
Charles Schwab
Exhilaration of life can be found only with an upward look. This is an exciting world. It is cram-packed with opportunity. Great moments wait around every corner.
Richard Devos
Everyone likes to think that he has done reasonably well in life so that it comes as a shock to find our children believing differently. The temptation is to tune them out it takes much more courage to listen.
John D. Rockefeller III
I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.
Oprah Winfrey
You will never "find" time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
Charles Buxton
During a very busy life I have often been asked "How did you manage to it all?" The answer is very simple: it is because I did everything promptly.
Sir Richard Tangye
Going to the opera like getting drunk is a sin that carries its own punishment with it and that a very severe one.
Hannah More
There are three answers to prayer: yes no and wait awhile. It must be recognized that no is an answer.
Ruth Stafford Peale
Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.
Ruth Graham
Prayer is not eloquence but earnestness not the definition of helplessness but the feeling of it not figures of speech but earnestness of soul.
Hannah More
Here is where some entrepreneurs fail. They are filled with creative juices and total commitment to their business but too often they don't understand that they must also be managers administrators even gofers-at least for a while.
Lillian Vernon
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
Andrew Carnegie
As I learnt very early in my life in Whitehall the acid test of any political question is: What is the alternative?
Lord Trent
Everyone has got it in him if he will only make up his mind and stick at it. None of us is born with a stop-valve on his powers or with a set limit to his capacities. There is no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.
Charles Schwab
Exhilaration of life can be found only with an upward look. This is an exciting world. It is cram-packed with opportunity. Great moments wait around every corner.
Richard Devos
Everyone likes to think that he has done reasonably well in life so that it comes as a shock to find our children believing differently. The temptation is to tune them out it takes much more courage to listen.
John D. Rockefeller III
I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.
Oprah Winfrey
You will never "find" time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
Charles Buxton
During a very busy life I have often been asked "How did you manage to it all?" The answer is very simple: it is because I did everything promptly.
Sir Richard Tangye
When I look at the future it's so bright it burns my eyes.
Oprah Winfrey
Going to the opera like getting drunk is a sin that carries its own punishment with it and that a very severe one.
Hannah More
Gentlemen prefer bonds.
Andrew Mellon
I'm so happy to be rich I'm willing to take all the consequences.
Howard Ahmanson
When you work seven days a week fourteen hours a day you get lucky.
Armand Hammer
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
Lord Dewar
Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead.
Charles Schwab
Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it but you don't want to see it again.
Ted Turner
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
Oprah Winfrey
Imagination frames events unknown In wild fantastic shapes of hideous ruin And what it fears creates.
Hannah More
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
John D. Rockefeller