Quotes by Philanthropists - Page 3

I have a special pair of poop shoes under my desk. Whenever I need to drop a deuce, I slip them on and scurry to the restroom, and no one ever knows it's me. Like, if I'm wearing Louboutins that day, and my producer sees Earth shoes in the stall....well, you get the idea. It was truly a lightbulb moment when that came to me.
Oprah Winfrey
We must speak the truth if we are to be a great nation
Imran Khan
The inability to delegate is one of the biggest problems I see with managers at all levels
Eli Broad
Death is my exit strategy. I'll be doing significant customer service only as long as I live.
Craig Newmark
I always knew looking back on the tears would make me laugh, but I never knew looking back on the laughs would make me cry.
Yusuf Islam
There is little success where there is little laughter.
Andrew Carnegie
Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.
Oprah Winfrey
The strangest thing has happened. I really missed my dog. That's never happened to me before. You know, on a long tour you do hear people saying they miss their pets. I never have. But last night I started really missing my dog. It's very odd, 'cause I don't have a dog.
Bono
It should be held as an eternal truth, that what is morally wrong can never be politically right.
Hannah More
[A]nd you may know how little God thinks of money by observing on what bad and contemptible characters he often bestow
Thomas Guthrie
I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.
Charles Schwab
We rarely recognize the extent to which human happiness requires struggle.
Phil Harvey
I've always wanted to race cars, even since I was a young boy, as I think a lot of guys have.
Paul Walker
Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.
Oprah Winfrey
The reason I like the game chess is because each move has countless repercussions, but you're in charge of them. And it's your ability to see into the future and the effects of the decisions you've made that males you either a good or not a good chess player. It's not luck.
Bono
My Pakistanis, you have not left me alone and I promise, I will never leave you alone in sha Allah
Imran Khan
Engaging in activities devoid of difficulty, lounging in risk-free zones, is life without great meaning.
Jon M. Huntsman Sr.
I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.
Warren Buffett
Screw it. Let's do it.
Richard Branson
Writing is like trying to escape quicksand. The harder you try the faster you sink.
Alane Adams
Writing is like breathing underwater. It's really hard to do unless you can imagine yourself a nice set of gills.
Alane Adams
Some people may call me a nerd. I claim the label with pride.
Bill Gates
If the old saying is true, that what one generation learns in school is the philosophy of the next, then the philosophy of the next generation will be totalitarianism.
John Whitehead
I'm a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid, I have never been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. There are so many qualities that make up a human being... by the time I get through with all the things that I really admire about people, what they do with their private parts is probably so low on the list that it is irrelevant.
Paul Newman
Mothers train your children to only Speak Truth
Imran Khan
You think you're a role model, and they (protégés)turn around and tell you you're a negative role model.
Judith Rodin
Peace is the opposite of dreaming. It’s built slowly and surely through brutal compromises and tiny victories that you don’t even see. It’s a messy business, bringing peace into the world.
Bono
Gray is not a substitute for black and white. You don’t bump into people without saying you’re sorry. When you shake hands, it’s supposed to mean something. If someone is in trouble, you reach out.
Jon M. Huntsman Sr.
Humans seldom have created anything of lasting value unless they were tired or hurting.
Jon M. Huntsman Sr.
Bravery is standing with the truth and right
Imran Khan
Religion to me almost like when God leaves – and people devise a set of rules to fill in the space.
Bono
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
Bill Gates
This deeply free and public space plays a vital role in our world, equally important in our digital age as in Greco-Roman times, when they were marketplaces for goods and ideas. As common ground, squares are equitable and democratic; they have played a fundamental role in the development of free speech.
Catie Marron
Squares have defined urban living since the dawn of democracy, from which they are inseparable. From the start, the public square has been synonymous with a society that acknowledges public life and a life in public, which is to say a society distinguishing the individual from the state [Michael Kimmelman, "Culture: Power of the Place"].
Catie Marron
In a half-empty-glass sort of world, I’m the little girl whose cup runneth over.
Sheila C. Johnson
There are two Newman's laws. The first one is "It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down." The second is "Just when things look darkest, they go black.
Paul Newman
Those with a moral deficit put on a good show, and sleep like a baby.
Paul Newman
Steve did not have a death wish. He had the exact opposite. His appetite for life was so strong, it outweighed all fear. So what if his choices shortened his life? His choices filled his life, and enriched the lives of those around him.
Richard Branson
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
Bill Gates
Belief and confusion are not mutually exclusive; I believe that belief gives you the direction in the confusion. But you don't see the full picture. That's the point. That's what faith is. You can't see it. It comes back to instinct. Faith is just up the street. Faith and instinct, you can't just rely on them. You have to beat them up. You have to pummel them to make sure they can withstand it, to make sure they can be trusted.
Bono
Imran Khan says 'End your ego, think of nation
Imran Khan
The fatigue of the climb was great but it is interesting to learn once more how much further one can go on one's second wind. I think that is an important lesson for everyone to learn for it should also be applied to one's mental efforts. Most people go through life without ever discovering the existance of that whole field of endeavor which we describe as second wind. Whether mentally or physically occupied most people give up at the first appearance of exhaustion. Thus they never learn the glory and the exhilaration of genuine effort...
Agnes Elizabeth née Ernst Meyer
It's quite widespread in rock culture, that mythology of the shooting star.I'd rather be the North star. As bob (Dylan) says, you can navigate by it.
Bono
We are such spendthrifts with our lives, the trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least fuss you can muster. I’m not running for sainthood. I just happen to think that in life we need to be a little like the farmer, who puts back into the soil what he takes out.
Paul Newman
As always, violence created more violence [Jehane Noujaim, "Tahrir Square, Cairo: Lost and Found in the Square"].
Catie Marron
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves
Sir Edmund Hillary
Crime should not pay, it must be punished. Unfortunately, in Pakistan big crimes do get rewarded.
Imran Khan
It is no wonder that Satan hates the family and has hurled his venom against it in the form of Communism.
William R. Bowen
I love America and I hate it. I'm torn between the two. I have two conflicting visions of America. One is a kind of dream landscape and the other is a kind of black comedy.
Bono
If love is the greatest gift of all-and I believe it is- then the greatest privilege of all is to be able to love someone.
Laura Schroff
Know this for sure: When you get the chance, go for it.
Oprah Winfrey
I believe luck is preparation meeting opportunity. If you hadn’t been prepared when the opportunity came along, you wouldn’t have been lucky.
Oprah Winfrey
If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes – then learn how to do it later!
Richard Branson
As long as other people's opinions matter more than your own, you're owned by them. You're not even free.
Oprah Winfrey
There is a sacred calling on your life, and the question is: Will you spend your life flittering and fluttering about or take the time and really heed that call and create your own path to your highest good?...You cannot let other people define your life for you. You are the author of your own life...Real power is when you are doing exactly what you are supposed to be doing, the best it can be done. Authentic power. There's a surge, there's a kind of energy field that says, "I'm in my groove, I'm in my groove." And nobody has to tell you, "You go, girl," because you know you're already gone.
Oprah Winfrey
There is so much debate about moderate and radical Islam but there is only one Islam.
Imran Khan
Holy Prophet PBUH promulgated a justice system regardless of status of people, yet in Pak the powerful easily escapes.
Imran Khan
I want you all to stand like the Muslims who stood with La ilaaha ilalla for Truth and Right
Imran Khan
I felt like the Islamic scholar Muhammad Abduh (1849-1905), who said on his return from a trip to Europe to his homeland Egypt 'I saw no Muslims in Europe but I saw a lot of Islam,' and of his homeland 'There are a lot of Muslims here but no Islam.
Imran Khan
Allah exalts whom he wills!
Imran Khan