Jon Huntsman Sr. Quotes

The people I've known who've done great things of that type - you know, building hospitals, running schools - are very humble people. They give their lives to the project.

We are not here in this world to find elegant solutions, pregnant with initiative, or to serve the ways and modes of profitable progress. No, we are here to provide for all those who are weaker and hungrier, more battered and crippled than ourselves. That is our only certain good and great purpose on earth

You need to have a heart to help others and separate yourself from your money.

The Christmas spirit does not shine out in the Christian snob. For the Christmas spirit is the spirit of those who, like their Master, live their whole lives on the principle of making themselves poor -- spending and being spent -- to enrich their fellow humans, giving time, trouble, care and concern, to do good to others -- and not just their own friends -- in whatever way there seems need.

I know that if I feel any deprivation or fear [about money], the solution is to give. The solution is to go find some mothers on the streets of San Raphael and give them tens and twenties and mail off another $50 to Doctors Without Borders to use for the refugees in Kosovo. Because I know that giving is the way we can feel abundant. Giving is the way that we fill ourselves up.... For me the way to fill up is through service and sharing and getting myself to give more than I feel comfortable giving.

I had one idea that never changed in my mind - that you should use your wealth to help people.

I think that if you start teaching about giving back and helping other people young, that will be a given for your child their whole life.

Helping others isn't a chore; it is one of the greatest gifts there is.

The gratification of helping others is a very American tradition and a Judeo-Christian tradition. Now it is great to see young people creating funds and giving back in all sorts of productive ways. It's a terrifically satisfying thing.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.

Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

I believe in giving back.

All of us, whether or not we're celebrities, every one ought to spend part of their life making someone else's life better.

With wealth, one is in a position of responsibility. You must try to help others. It is as simple as that.

If I died tomorrow, I would regret growing so wealthy and still running the business when there are so many more people I could have helped.

Acting is a smaller piece in a big puzzle. There are charity things I want to immerse myself in and want to have the time to go and give back to people who don't have the opportunities I have. It's a very important thing to me.

I'm from the bottom, I understand what it's like to have and to not have. My perception on giving is to put yourself in those people's shoes and go from there. So that's what I did.

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

I have found that the only thing that does bring you happiness is doing something good for somebody who is incapable of doing it for themselves.

I've been doing a lot of stuff that has to do with charity and giving. I'm trying to give and not take as much.

But I will never stop helping and loving people the way Jesus said to.

I think often times when people choose to be part of a charity; it's usually because something is very personal.

I believe that everyone, regardless of who they are, should do something that is greater than themselves. Whether it's adoption, or helping people who are sick or poor, or whatever. That's what God put us on this earth to do.