Quotes by Philanthropists - Page 7

You have to find what sparks a light in you so that you in your own way can illuminate the world.
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
The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee. And I pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
John D. Rockefeller
A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily
John D. Rockefeller
I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
Oprah Winfrey
...not doing what we love in the name of greed is very poor management of our lives.
Warren Buffett
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
The past is not a place I like to visit. This project is forcing me to go there, to tidy up my thoughts. I'm not normally a navel-gazer. I've always thought you find yourself in other people. I'm visiting here. I don't want to set up house.
Bono
Life is not fair get used to used to it
Bill Gates
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
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
John D. Rockefeller
Pounds are the sons not of pounds but of pence.
Charles Buxton
I commissioned two political experts to advise me about what I could do to oppose the re-election of President Bush.
George Soros
I believe there's a calling for all of us. I know that every human being has value and purpose. The real work of our lives is to become aware. And awakened. To answer the call.
Oprah Winfrey
If the newspapers begin to publish stories about wars, and the people begin to think and talk of war in their daily conversations, they soon find themselves at war. People get that which their minds dwell upon, and this applies to a group or community or a nation of people, the same as to an individual
Andrew Carnegie
I want you all to stand like the Muslims who stood with La ilaaha ilalla for Truth and Right
Imran Khan
Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.
Bono
A man with no enemies is a man with no character.
Paul Newman
Where you live should not determine whether you live, or whether you die.
Bono
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
It should be held as an eternal truth, that what is morally wrong can never be politically right.
Hannah More
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
You will never "find" time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
Charles Buxton