Darci Lynne Farmer Quotes

I'm going to stop giving too much money to charity - the charity is going to become my family. I'm only half-kidding.

When I ask people to give, I can't be on television if they don't; I can't help people, if I don't - I mean, it takes money.

Jessica Jackley has a gift for making people want to fork over their cash. To total strangers. Far, far away.

I'm a sucker for giving people money on the street. I don't know if it's a good or a bad thing, but I can't help myself.

I came from a wealthy family. I made over my share of the estate to various charities.

At least once a year, I meet with a group called the Giving Pledge. It's a group of billionaires - including me, Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, and Ted Turner - who have pledged to give away most of their money to charity. We meet for three days to talk about what we're doing to help make the planet a better place to live.

You have to offer a product that creates an environment that captures donations, but at the end of the day, it's not the environment that draws in the money but the cause.

I think people like Bill Gates, who have given away enormous sums of money, are shining examples for all of us to follow.

There are a lot of people with a lot of money, and I'm amazed they don't understand what a great pleasure it can be to give.

Importantly, I still give money to homeless people - and all other charities.

Tithing is a bad ceiling but an excellent floor.

You give the money where you want it.

I admire people like Warren Buffett that are donating so much money to charity.

Around 80 per cent of my money goes to charity.

I want to give away the money. I don't want to die with it. I want the money to be used well.

It's amazing how people will give when you don't ask. Many of them send money because they believe in the message.

I would love to have had much more money so that I could be a philanthropist.

Asking people for money is giving them the opportunity to put their resources at the disposal of the Kingdom.

There is a place and a time for philanthropy, and there is only so much money you can give away.

The biggest thing for me with charity is awareness. Obviously as an athlete, I have an opportunity to make people more aware. The average person doesn't have that opportunity, so the best way is to spare some money, clothing, food - something. Most of us have a little excess of something that we can give.

In my view, a philanthropist is anyone who gives anything - time, money, experience, skills or networks - in any amount, to create a better world. This is not how we once thought about philanthropy. The word used to conjure up something rather passive - sitting down and writing checks.

There's no compassion like the penny.

If I hadn't given my money away, I'd have had more than anyone else on the planet.

There are several things to be learned about money from Scripture, and the concepts of generosity and giving are in there.

I'm not good at raising money. I don't like to raise money. It's been my experience that when I ask someone for money, it's not long before they return the favor.