Philanthropy quotes

Discover inspiring philanthropic quotes that celebrate the power of giving and making a positive impact on the lives of others. Be inspired to embrace compassion and kindness through these philanthropy quotes.

It's easy in music to tell what's good. It's hard to tell what's bad.

- David Geffen

I’ve always thought that each person invented himself… that we are each a figment of our own imagination. And some people have a greater ability to imagine than others.

- David Geffen

Everybody in politics lies, but they do it with such ease, it's troubling.

- David Geffen

Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn't got money.

- David Geffen

In Los Angeles, they don't want you to fail, they want you to die.

- David Geffen

What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?

- W. Clement Stone

There is very little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude.

- W. Clement Stone

Like success, failure is many things to many people. With a positive mental attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

- W. Clement Stone

If you always do what you have always done, you will always be where you are right now.

- W. Clement Stone

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

- W. Clement Stone

Be generous. Give to those you love; give to those who love you, give to the fortunate, give to the unfortunate — yes, give especially to those you don’t want to give. You will receive abundance for your giving. The more you give, the more you will have.

- W. Clement Stone

Be careful the environment you choose, for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

- W. Clement Stone

If we have data, let’s look at data. If all we have are opinions, let’s go with mine.

- Jim Barksdale

The buzz is still with me. I get goose bumps.

- David Beckham

I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as everybody else or as smart, or whatever.

- Halle Berry

And it was where I learned how to play tennis and eventually became captain of the tennis team at the school and was on the Junior Davis Cup in New York City.

- Sanford I. Weill

Steven Spielberg and I have tremendous amounts of money.

- David Geffen

TV is like theater. You can't enjoy it without a program.

- Walter Annenberg

I'd heard he was good, and what the hell sense does it make not to hire somebody because of their color?

- Walter Annenberg

As the treaty made with the United States was the first treaty entered into by your country with other countries, therefore the President regards Japan with peculiar friendliness.

- Townsend Harris

Obviously, people in Texas have big hearts.

- Katie Couric

Be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

- W. Clement Stone

We've been asked to do 'Playboy' together, me and Victoria, as a pair. I don't think I'll ever go naked, but I'll never say never.

- David Beckham

I wonder how many people would have thought at the end of World War II that the capitalist system would be one that was meeting the challenges and making things better for people as we approach the 21st century.

- Sanford I. Weill

Our blood will turn from red to blue, although our money is but new.

- Walter Annenberg

I love scoring goals for England and playing for England. That's one of the reasons I didn't retire - I love playing for my country.

- David Beckham

You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.

- W. Clement Stone

Every situation has changed me as a person.

- David Beckham

Be dramatically willing to focus on the customer at all costs, even at the cost of obsoleting your own stuff.

- Scott Cook

Beauty is not just physical.

- Halle Berry