Daily Quote Archives

“Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.”

“In Faith and Hope the world will disagree, But all mankind’s concern is charity.”

“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”

“Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.”

“The more you look into health and health inequalities, you realize that a lot of it is not due to a particular disease - it’s really linked to underlying societal issues such as poverty, inequity, lack of access to safe drinking water and housing.”

“In charity there is no excess.”

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable”

“I am one of those who think, like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.”

“Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding. Find out what you already know and you will see the way to fly.”

“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can’t see from the center.”

“No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.”

“You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.”

“No matter what happens in a child‘s home, no matter what other social and economic factors may impede a child, there’s no question in my mind that a first-rate school can transform almost everything.”

“I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.”

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel”

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”

“Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world.”

“I‘ve done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When in poverty, people use their skill to avoid hunger. They can’t use it for progress.”

“Whether you are talking about cardiac care or education, the fundamental question is: How do you provide it for everyone?”

“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”

“Mankind’s suffering belongs to all men.”

“You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.”

“A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.”

“Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.”

“I realized if you can change a classroom, you can change a community, and if you change enough communities you can change the world.”

“The essence of global health equity is the idea that something so precious as health might be viewed as a right.”

“Let us unite the world through the compassion for our children.”

“A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.”

“Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice.”

“All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.”