Yusuf Hamied Quotes

We only have so much life left. Before I do die, I want to do something good for people.

I hope I'm thought of as not just a showbiz personality, but as someone who has lived a life and who has hopefully made a contribution to something along the way - someone who is a human being as well as an actress.

I don't want my tombstone to say actress. I want it to say human being.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

I want to be remembered as the biggest philanthropist in Turkey.

I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.

If life only has the meaning you bring to it, we have the opportunity to bring rich meaning to our lives by the service we do for others.

It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success.

There's a fundamental question that everyone has to answer: What fraction of your life do you spend in service to your fellow man? It's not something that science helps you answer at all. It's one of these questions like, Who are you gong to marry? Science doesn't really help you with the question.

Life is short. Do whatever you can to help people - not for status, but because the 95-year-old you will be proud if you did help people and disappointed if you didn't.

He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.

Mother Teresa was asked what was the meaning of life, and she said to help other people, and I thought, 'What a strange thing to say' - but maybe it's the right thing to say.

Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever.

If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.

I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

My mother always wanted to give back.

The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.

I am convinced that success is not measured by what you get out of life, but by what you give back.

Life is fleeting, and permanence in this world is something we all strive for. The best way to achieve permanence is through philanthropy.

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

Obviously, you're known for what you do. But you still want to be known as a good person. You're a person a lot longer before and after you're a professional athlete.

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

Service is what life is all about.

I want to be remembered for having a great love for my fellow man. Because, you know, I do.