Quotes by Philanthropists

For the developing world, the past half-century has been a time of recurring hope and frequent disappointment. Great waves of change have washed over the landscape, from the crumbling of colonial hegemonies in mid-century to the recent collapse of Communist empires. But too often, what rushed in to replace the old order were empty hopes-not only in the false allure of state socialism, non-alignment and single-party rule, but also the false glories of romantic nationalism and narrow tribalism, and the false dawn of runaway individualism.
Aga Khan
Fortunate are the people whose roots are deep.
Agnes Meyer
You can have it all. Just not all at once.
Oprah Winfrey
Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Oprah Winfrey
When you have money in hand,only you forget who are you .But when you do not have any money in your hand,the whole world forget who you are.It's life.
Bill Gates
The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.
Oprah Winfrey
Sometimes success is due less to ability than zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body and soul.
Charles Buxton
When we can't get away for a vacation we get the same feeling by staying home and tipping every person that smiles.
Susie Spanos
Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.
Victor Pinchuk
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.
Oprah Winfrey
I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.
Oprah Winfrey
A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.
Andrew Carnegie
The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth.
Lord Shaftesbury
Never take both hands off the pump. As an entrepreneur, you need to be on constant lookout for opportunity, and that will involve risk. But you minimize those risks by keeping one hand on the pump that is producing for you.
Kenneth E. Behring
As long as other people's opinions matter more than your own, you're owned by them. You're not even free.
Oprah Winfrey
To get what you want, you have to deserve what you want. The world is not yet a crazy enough place to reward a whole bunch ofundeserving people.
Charles T. Munger
For all that "I was lost, I am found," it is probably more accurate to say, "I was really lost, I'm a little less so at the moment.
Bono
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
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
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
It is very important to remember what other people tell you, not so much what you yourself already know.
John D. Rockefeller
Empty words and long praises do not impress God. Show Him your faith by your deeds
Abdul Sattar Edhi
to be successful, you have to be out there, you have to hit the ground running
Richard Branson
There's no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.
Bono
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
If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay.
Oprah Winfrey
There's no better makeup than confidence
Shakira Ripoll
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
Oprah Winfrey
You may still be here tomorrow...but your dreams may not.
Yusuf Islam
Once dishonesty is introduced, distrust becomes the hallmark of future dealings or associations.
Jon M. Huntsman Sr.
There is little success where there is little laughter.
Andrew Carnegie
Music can change the world because it can change people.
Bono
Those with a moral deficit put on a good show, and sleep like a baby.
Paul Newman
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
There is so much debate about moderate and radical Islam but there is only one Islam.
Imran Khan
Life is not fair, get used to it
Bill Gates
We must speak the truth if we are to be a great nation
Imran Khan
A crisis creates the opportunity to dip deep into the reservoirs of our very being, to rise to levels of confidence, strength, and resolve that otherwise we didn't think we possessed.
Jon M. Huntsman Sr.
Failing conventionally is the route to go; as a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever received bad press
Warren Buffett
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another step-pingstone to greatness.
Oprah Winfrey
In grief we know the worst of what we feel But who can tell the end of what we fear?
Hannah More
The ones whose light will remain with me long after they have burnt out are the ones that had grace. Because it's rare that the gift comes with grace. Some of the biggest arseholes I've ever met are the most gifted. Because it's "pretty girl" syndrome. Being gifted is like being born beautiful. You don't have to work a day in a year in your life for it. You were born with it. In one sense, it's like blue blood, money, gift, or beauty. They are the things that should make you the most humble, because they are not the things you have earned. They are the things you were given. Yet, it is my experience that they male people the most spoiled. And the people who work the hardest, and who have overcome the most obstacles on their life, who have reason to beat their breasts are the most humble, sometimes. I can't get over that. it's bewildering to me. To make it through success and still have manners, to still have curiosity, intellectual curiosity, to still have some grace, to keep your dignity, that is really... rare.
Bono
You think you're a role model, and they (protégés)turn around and tell you you're a negative role model.
Judith Rodin
spaces that at first may appear to reflect a simple condition are much more complex when the actions of individuals and groups are factored in. These unique patterns of movement through space can and should guide the architecture we build to serve them. For space only becomes truly public when people recognize it and utilize it as such. Great public space cannot be built as much as curated; it is architecture's responsibility to craft space in response to specific needs and unique practices. . . . it is not the space itself that is meaningful; it is the way space facilitates diversity, interaction, and new negotiations that makes it meaningful [David Adjaye, "Djemaa El-Fnaa, Marrakech: Engaging with Complexity and Diversity"].
Catie Marron
My Pakistanis, you have not left me alone and I promise, I will never leave you alone in sha Allah
Imran Khan
When you stop living for luxuries, you understand the real meaning of life.
Abdul Sattar Edhi
In newer countries, you often find two types of public square: one that is older, organic, chaotic, and populated; and one that is recent, planned, orderly, and deserted. The first type predates the nation-state and accretes over time to accommodate the habits and needs, mainly commercial ones, of ordinary city dwellers. Its names are maidan, souq, bazaar, market. The second is constructed according to a master plan to embody the idealized qualities of the nation, often with grandiose results. The first thrusts people together in a public space, a hive if activity. Its essence is accidental and spontaneous. The second leaves nothing to chance. It tells people that they are subservient to the state and, in a sense, irrelevant to it [George Packer, "History: Influence on Humanity"].
Catie Marron
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
Good brands reflect the histories of the time and the group of people that made them. They can not be copied. They can not be recycled.
Richard Branson
We need a new, deeper appreciation of the ethnic histories of the American people, not a reduction of American history to ethnic histories.
Steven C. Rockefeller
It is much easier to put existing resources to better use, than to develop resources where they do not exist.
George Soros
But nobody is visually naive any longer. We are cluttered with images, and only abstract art can bring us to the threshold of the divine.
Dominique De Menil
There are greater goals in life than material and sensual pleasures
Imran Khan
Twas doing nothing was his curse. Is there a vice can plague us worse?
Hannah More
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
As the outward man is not fit for work for any length of time unless he eats, so is with the inner man. What is the food for the inner man? Not prayer, but the Word of God-not the simple reading of the Word of God, so that it only passes through our minds, just as water runs through a pipe. No, we must consider what we read, ponder over it, and apply it to our hearts.
George Müller
The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.
Warren Buffett
Every woman dreams of her own political career and her own place in life.
Raisa M. Gorbachev
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
A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself.
Oprah Winfrey