Suze Orman Quotes

We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do.

I think that it's a good thing that you want to be part of making the world a better place, including between nine and five.

You're part of the problem or the solution. Solution means, in my opinion, to be taking extra time and energy in trying to give back to the world.

The more I help out, the more successful I become. But I measure success in what it has done for the people around me. That is the real accolade.

I hope that my work helps people - that's the thing that drives me and keeps me going.

My life is only important if i can help plenty of people

When you reach out to others in need, when you reach out to the world, you really do have a satisfying life by helping others.

I don't think about wealth. I get one thing in my mind, "How can I help people...come on humans...do something, you know. Let's wake up. Man alive...you're half dead. Let's do some living".

I set out to try to help my fellow man and to do what little I could to make the world a better place.

I like to focus on what I'm doing now, which is giving back. I've done interventions with people I've been close to.

The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.

I'm going to go wherever I'm needed.

You cannot continue to succeed in the world or have a fulfilling life in the world unless you choose to use your life in the service somehow to others and give back what you have been given. That's how you keep it. That's how you get it. That's how you grow it.

Filling a need is not merely good business; it's a basic attitude towards life. If you see a need, do whatever you can to meet that need.

I want to get involved in things that makes a difference in peoples lives and lifts them up. I don't want to be a part of anything that's not inspiring or helpful to the community that I'm serving.

I am a firm believer that you can make a difference in someone's life - whether they're thousands of miles away, or on your own block.

I have never forgotten my days as an Eagle Scout. I didn't know it at the time, but what really came out of my Scouting was learning how to lead and serve the community. It has come in handy in my career in government.

I always knew that I wanted to do the most that I could for the most people.

People really want to do something good. You just have to show them where it is.

We all have a responsibility to volunteer somewhere and I'm lucky that I get the education and get taken to places to see what's out there and see what's happening and to then be a part of it in hopefully an impactful way.

My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it.

I want to serve the people.

While visiting Costa Rica, I was inspired to hear that someone had donated a playground to a local school. So when I returned to L.A., one day I just called the principal of a nearby elementary school and asked what I could do. Five years later, I've helped make over nine schools, repainting, renovating, and fixing up playgrounds.

I get enormous satisfaction from knowing I'm doing something for society.

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.