Lyman Abbott Quotes

Seek always to do some good, somewhere... Even if it's a little thing, so something for those that need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.

Money comes and goes. When you pass away it's about what you've done to make this world a better place.

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 have been doing good deeds since I was just a small child.

Doing Good Is My Religion

When I got religion, I found some work to do to benefit somebody.

I'm no saint, and I don't want to come across like one, but there is not a day that goes by that I'm not doing something for someone else with a very large chunk of my time.

There's a great satisfaction in humanitarian work.

I can never get tired of helping people.

To me, there are saints every day. They stand up and help others and live for others and do things for others.

I was raised in a spirit of the importance of service to your fellow man. My mom is a senator back home in South Africa. My father is a very caring and generous individual.

Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.

When you look at Regis, he really and truly does feel for those people, and I feel like I've done it too. You're giving away somebody else's money so what do you care? It's not your money.

I want to do something to help people.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Around 80 per cent of my money goes to charity.

Some of our finest work comes through service to others.

Being charitable provides a boost to your psyche that is tough to replicate in any other way. But note that although any charity will happily take your money, you can give in other ways and still reap the same happiness reward. Volunteering and donating your old or unused belongings have the same result.

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.

I like to give back.

It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.

Money can add very much to one's ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others. My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale. The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.

I tell everybody, I get so much because I give so much. I give freely, I give all my time, give all my money, give all of my soul. I try to motivate people. I try to inspire them.

It's important to think good, speak good, and do good. If we want to see positive change in the world, then we need to connect to goodness. I try in everything I do, both in business and philanthropy, to make a positive change and do that by doing good.

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.