Philanthropist Quotes

Music is a great blessing. It has the power to elevate and liberate us. It sets people free to dream. It can unite us to sing with one voice. Such is the value of music.

You can either waltz boldly onto the stage of life and live the way you know your spirit is nudging you to, or you can sit quietly by the wall, receding into the shadows of fear and self doubt.

We are extricating ourselves from a system that insulted our common humanity by dividing us from one another on the basis of race and setting us against each other as oppressed and oppressor. That system committed a crime against humanity.

You mustn't compromise your principles, but you mustn't humiliate the opposition. No one is more dangerous than one who is humiliated.

When people succeed they party, when people fail they ponder.

So many people supported me through my public life and I will never forget them.

Very successful people say no to almost everything.

Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the U.S. Bureau of Wild Life.

I'm just a singer/songwriter and entertainer and I miss people and the energy of the crowd. When I play live it's a lovefest with me and my audience. It's how I get my rocks off.

Two years from now, spam will be solved.

I believe the chance of any event causing Berkshire to experience financial problems is essentially zero. We will always be prepared for the thousand-year flood; in fact, if it occurswe will be selling life jackets to the unprepared.

One of my best moves is to surround myself with friends who, instead of asking, 'Why?' are quick to say, 'Why not?' That attitude is contagious.

It always seems impossible until it's done.

Floyd Paterson and other fighters, they just don't take part.They make a million dollars, they get a Rolls Royce and a nice home and a white wife and think, 'well, I made it'.

The message of reconciliation, of nation-building, of granting amnesty, indemnity, has struck a powerful, favorable chord. And people can understand that we're here not for purposes of retribution but to forget the past and to build our country.

I was always at the gymnasium every day at six o'clock after school. In the mornings I would run, looking forward to future golden gloves and Olympic tournaments.

I happen to have a talent for allocating capital. But my ability to use that talent is completely dependent on the society I was born into. If I'd been born into a tribe of hunters, this talent of mine would be pretty worthless. I can't run very fast. I'm not particularly strong. I'd probably end up as some wild animal's dinner.

I've been everywhere in the world, seen everything, had everything a man can have.

The question of education has nothing to do with the question of the vote. On numerous occasions it has been proved in history that people can enjoy the vote even if they have no education.

Happiness and success in life are not the result of what we have, but rather of how we live. What we do with the things we have makes the biggest difference in the quality of life.

I don't have to be what you want me to be.

If you want a fulfilled life, stop thinking about wealthy people and what they have and you don't. Stop thinking from a place of scarcity.

I did not enjoy the violence of boxing so much as the science of it. I was intrigued by how one moved one's body to protect oneself, how one used a strategy both to attack and retreat, how one paced oneself over a match.

Patience is a key element of success.

We understand and promote the notion that while children need to be guided they also have an entrenched right to be whatever they want to be and that they can achieve this only if they are given the space to dream and live out their dreams.

To be fully human is...to know that it's possible to face the unimaginable and somehow put one foot in front of the other.

The only way to create change in anyone`s psychology or belief system is to show them the consequences of their actions - or inaction.

Even for the diseases we don't focus on, cancer, heart disease, you're going to be way better off being sick 10 years from now than any time in the past.

Robotics and other combinations will make the world pretty fantastic compared with today.

The managers at fault periodically report on the lesson they have learned from the latest disappointment. They then usually seek out future lessons.

Trade your expectations for appreciation and the world changes instantly.

The man who will whip me will be fast, strong and hasn't been born yet.

What I learned at a very early age was that I was responsible for my life. And as I became more spiritually conscious, I learned that we all are responsible for ourselves, that you create your own reality by the way you think and therefore act. You cannot blame your parents, your circumstances, because you are NOT your circumstances. You are your possibilities. If you know that, you can do anything.

The latter qualification brings to mind a fellow who applied for a job and stated he had twenty years of experience-which was corrected by a former employer to read "one year's experience-twenty times.

To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination, and the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.

Nothing is ever wrong. We learn from every step we take. Whatever you did today was the way it was meant to be. Be proud of you.

People who experience negative or stressful emotions on an ongoing basis are less healthy and live shorter lives.

When you write a piece of software you assume a certain type of hardware. If you assume hardware that's too powerful then you can't sell many copies cause very few people have that machine. If you assume hardware that's too simple your product can't do as much.

You negotiate in bad faith if you do not forgive your adversary.

An educated, enlightened & informed population is one of the surest ways of promoting the health of a democracy

As one of my older friends says, "Nostalgia just isn't what it used to be." Let's take a stab at it, anyway.

No form of violence can ever be excused in a society that wishes to call itself decent

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

Devote today to something so daring even you can't believe you're doing it.

Can I just tell you the truth? I get asked to do a lot of stuff. And all of the years that people have asked me to do things for the film festival, I couldn't. And so this year, I thought, "Oh, my god, I don't have a day job. If somebody ask me to do something, I'm going to do it."

There's nothing stressful about turning 50 except people reminding you about it.

I'm not going to sit here and argue with you. Just PUT THE BLOODY METER ON.

The barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much complexity. To turn caring into action, we need to see a problem, see a solution, and see the impact. But complexity blocks all three steps.

The past doesn't equal the future.All great leaders, all people who have achieved in any area of life,know the power of continuously pursuing their vision,even if all the details of how to achieve it aren't yet available

The secret to success is... is no secret. It's called work your Ass off and find a way to add more value to peoples lives than anyone else does!

Success is a miserable teacher. It tempts intelligent people to believe they cannot lose. And it is an unreliable guide to the future.

I tried to empty myself and let the spirit of Sethe inhabit me.

Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.

Nothing happens until you decide.

Only through focus can you do world-class things, no matter how capable you are.

Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.

[On growing up in a large family with little money:] ... to take a bath ... we just had a pan of water and we'd wash down as far as possible, and we'd wash up as far as possible. Then, when somebody'd clear the room, we'd wash possible.

She is the mother I never had, she is the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don't know a better person.

What I know for sure is that the only way to endure the quake is to adjust your stance. You can't avoid the daily tremors. Don't fight them. Just find a different way to stand.

Inflation could be a very - is a likely consequence out of what's going on now.