Quotes That Inspired Us

• "If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else."

  - Booker T. Washington

• "I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again."

  - Mahatma Gandi

• "If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one."

  - Mother Teresa

• "Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would want to help out, we'd want to get involved."

  - Bill Gates

• "It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it."

  - Albert Einstein

• "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

  - Theodore Roosevelt

• "With a generation of younger folks who have thrived on the success of their companies, there is a big opportunity for many of us to give back earlier in our lifetime and see the impact of our philanthropic effort."

  - Mark Zuckerburg

• "We started our foundation because we believe we have a real opportunity to help advance equity around the world, to help make sure that, no matter where a person is born, he or she has the chance to live a healthy, productive life."

  - Melinda French Gates

• "The highest use of capital is not to make more money but to make money to do more for the betterment of life."

  - Henry Ford

• "Wealth is not to feed our egos but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves."

  - Andrew Carnegie

• "The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members."

  - Pearl S. Buck

• "There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up."

  - John Holmes

• "We cannot help ourselves without helping others.
  We cannot enrich our lives without enriching others.
  We cannot prosper without bringing prosperity to others."

  - Jannete Cole, Spellman College