Warren Buffett Quotes

It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.

I'm very grateful to all the people of Fresno, to Philip Levine and all the poets before me, and all the farmworkers. I didn't get here by myself.

All great people glorify their history and look back upon their early attainments with a spiritualized vision.

The necessary thing for anyone to be happy and contented as long as he lives is working for the ones who will come after him rather than working for himself... One can reach the true delight and happiness in the life only by working for the existence, honor, and happiness of the future generations.

People still thank me for the stuff I did for this sport, and I appreciate everything people say.

These guys from the past really motivate me, much respect to the guys before me and the ones after me.

Everything we now enjoy has been provided through the kindness of other beings, past or present.

The most important question we must ask ourselves is, 'Are we being good ancestors?'

This sport has given me so much that my hope would be to give back as much as I can for as long as I can.

I'm grateful to see my work flourish in my lifetime. Many of the great people in our history were not able to see how much their work, suffering and sacrifices enriched our lives and pushed our struggle forward. But I've been blessed to see my work begin in a family home, spread around the world and be embraced by millions of African people throughout the world African community.

If to be venerated for benevolence, if to be admired for talents, if to be esteemed for patriotism, if to be beloved for philanthropy, can gratify the human mind, you must have the pleasing consolation to know that you have not lived in vain. And I flatter myself that it will not be ranked among the least grateful occurrences of your life to be assured that, so long as I retain my memory, you will be thought on with respect, veneration, and affection by your sincere friend.

Most people, if they were generous, were so because they thought life was short and that one must make the most of it. Sid Baxter was generous because he knew that life was long. It went on and on even when you had no use for it anymore. It was happiness, not life, that was short, and when it visited - in the form of a fine evening spent talking with a friend - he honoured it.

In the fullness of time, when it is our turn to give, we must in turn plant gardens that we may never eat the fruit of, which will benefit the generations to come.

posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.

It was up to him to pay back to the world in beauty and caring what Leslie had loaned him in vision and strength.

Be generous, be humble, and be grateful when achieving your dreams.

Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.

Not one day goes by when I don't remind myself of how grateful I am for those who came before me over the last 25 years. When I see players like Mike Schmidt and Johnny Bench, I thank them.

My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.

He that doth public good for multitudes, finds few are truly grateful

Only free men are thoroughly grateful one to another.

When I wake up, I always thank God. I'm grateful for another day, and he's allowed me this tiny thing that we should be appreciative of. As long as you know who you are, everything else will be OK. No one else can intervene or interfere or affect you, because you control your destiny, you control your tone, you control everything in your life.

Too much of our lives corresponds to the 'lost-wallet' theory of life. You lose something, spend a long time finding it, and then feel grateful to be back where you started.

Ah, we have to be generous to be grateful ... One has oneself to be a giver.

Remember Old Nan's stories, Bran. Remember the way she told them, the sound of her voice. So long as you do that, part of her will always be alive in you.