Idries Shah Quotes

Hopefully as you get older you get more selfless. That would be probably a good goal. I don't know if we do, though.

Success may or may not mean that you've acquired a lot. It does mean that you have become a generous person.

The difficult thing for me is that I want basically to be a good man. That's what I want to be.

James Remar is a student of life.

Money doesn't transform a person - the only thing that can is love.

But I'm trying to play into this role as much as possible and be a nicer person in real life.

I consider myself a good person. And I think people perceive me to be, 'Oh, she's nice,' but being a good person, knowing your strengths and working towards those strengths, and encouraging those around you to do the same, that's a good person.

Even for charity I always give priority to education because I always teach young people - knowledge is your real companion, your life long companion, not fortune. Fortune can disappear.

The fact is that not only do people get more wise and more conservative as they get older, they get more kind and more generous, too.

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

It is of little traits that the greatest human character is composed.

I don't want to just be the best player. I want to be a great person, too.

When you meet someone who gives you good advice for your own, you must have the humility to listen.

I like having fun, but the most important thing is to be as good a person as you can be.

No matter how much you know, you can always learn more and be a good listener.

When you meet someone who gives you good advice for your own, you must have the humility to listen.

I care about people, and I've learned in life that the only thing we are here for is to learn and teach.

Community service has been a great thing for me.

I will try and become a very empathetic person because I do think that's a nice trait.

I have always been generous because I know that I have done well in life and I believe it is part of my duty to give back. So I am always been philanthropic.

The more we stretch the muscle called compassion and generosity, the stronger we get, the better we feel about ourselves, the more loving we become to the world around us.

Giving is like a muscle. To be strong, you have to exercise it, and to grow as a person, giving is the exercise. You can't really enjoy anything without sharing it.

In the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness.

The rich man never really gives anything, he only distributes part of the surplus. It is the person of moderate means who really gives.

Each of us will one day be judged by our standard of life, not by our standard of living; by our measure of giving, not by our measure of wealth; by our simple goodness, not by our seeming greatness.