Diana Gabaldon Quotes

The world needs people who save lives.

When you have an emergency, there is the urge to do whatever it takes to see people get assistance.

Saving a life overrides territories.

I'm a doer, and whether it was the tsunami in Sri Lanka or the earthquake in Indonesia, I was always saying, 'I should be there; I should be helping out.'

You save your soul by saving someone else's body.

Philanthropy is not about the money. It's about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world.

We live in this world, not another one that we'd prefer, and sometimes it's necessary to follow painful paths if we hope to provide at least a little help for suffering people.

I'm very passionate about charity... Performing is my passion. But it's not gonna change the world. That's why I give back.

I mean, if we said right now, there's somebody in the next room who's dying, let's all go save their life, you know, everybody would just get up immediately and go get involved in that.

The man will be most successful who confers the greatest service on the world.

Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny.

The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.

Charity is a flower not naturally of earthly growth, and it needs manuring with a promise of profit.

I find trying to solve problems and save lives is far more important than my film career.

Looking back, if I had to live my life over, there are things I would do differently, but the one thing I would not change is my charitable giving. I'm particularly thankful for my father's advice to set goals so high that they can't possibly be achieved during a lifetime and to give help where help is needed most. That inspiration keeps me energized and eager to keep working hard every day on giving back and making the world a better place for generations to come.

When you do good by the world, the world will do good by you

Real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto.

Charity is a supreme virtue, and the great channel through which the mercy of God is passed on to mankind. It is the virtue that unites men and inspires their noblest efforts.

I'm also very passionate about charity because it helps people who don't have as loud of a voice as I do.

This only is charity, to do all, all that we can.

It would be considered a theft on our part if we didn't give to someone in greater need than we are.

We will act to build a better world. We always have, we always will. We will act to lend a helping hand, not just here but wherever we humanly can.

The motive, if you are to find inner peace, must be an outgoing motive. Service, of course-service. Giving, not getting. Your motive must be good if your work is to have good effect. The secret of life is being of service.

The noblest question in the world is: 'What good may I do in it?'

I see somebody dying, I pick him up.