Paul Newman Quotes

For all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand.

I hate the idea of people nicking my stuff, but in all honesty, I'm pretty well off. If a genuinely desperate man on his last gasp nicks my coat from the pub on a freezing night, well, he's welcome to it. It'll change his life. Mine's only inconvenienced by having to buy another one.

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.

We can't turn our back on people who need help.

Though we cannot relieve all the distressed, we should relieve as many as we can.

We are not here in this world to find elegant solutions, pregnant with initiative, or to serve the ways and modes of profitable progress. No, we are here to provide for all those who are weaker and hungrier, more battered and crippled than ourselves. That is our only certain good and great purpose on earth

Your government is still on the same side of the street as the Good Samaritan and not those who pass by on the other side.

While Pop lived his life in comfort, he was always generous to the less fortunate.

Throughout my life, I always remember that consideration of people who were less fortunate than we. We lived in an atmosphere of awareness, and we certainly did not live a life whereby we ignored, or felt that we could ignore, that which was in evidence around us.

Inherently, I have a social conscience which my late father inculcated in me. He was not exactly a very wealthy man, but he was very concerned about the underprivileged, about the people who didn't have equal opportunities.

I give to panhandlers on occasion, especially around the holidays, but have always been involved with charity, which was an important part of the way I was brought up. My siblings and I knew early on in life that we were incredibly fortunate and have never taken that for granted, so we recognize the importance of giving back.

We should be with people who are in need.

For those who are not hungry, it is easy to palaver about the degradation of charity.

What could be better than to hold your hand out to people less fortunate than you are?

The mystery of poverty is that by sharing in it, making ourselves poor in giving to others, we increase our knowledge of and belief in love.

While earning your daily bread, be sure you share a slice with those less fortunate.

We are fortunate people. It is our need and responsibility to help our fellow man.

I've always felt obligated to help those less fortunate than me. It's an obligation that anyone who has a chance to be in the NBA should feel and act upon.

I believe you should help people.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

Importantly, I still give money to homeless people - and all other charities.

Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.

Pure libertarianism believes that people will be generous and help each other. Well, they won't. I wish it were so, and I live that way. I help panhandlers, but other people are, 'Oh look at that - why doesn't he get a job?' While I believe in all that freedom, I also believe that no one should suffer needlessly.

I feel that if you are blessed, or lucky enough, to be doing well, you should help others.