quotes about Philanthropy
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Kindness is always fashionable.
-- Amelia BarrSource : Amelia Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography”, p.98, Litres
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Donate and do not talk about it, they say you do nothing for the society; do and talk about it, they say you seek publicity!
-- Amitabh Bachchan -
He who confers a benefit on anyone loves him better than he is beloved.
-- Aristotle -
It is a privilege to serve people, a privilege that must be earned, and once earned, there is an obligation to do something good with it.
-- Barbara Jordan -
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The imperative is to define what is right and do it.
-- Barbara JordanSource : Barbara Jordan, Elspeth D. Rostow, Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin (1986). “The Great Society: A Twenty Year Critique”, Univ Texas at Austin Lyndon B
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I would rather have it said, 'He lived usefully,' than, 'He died rich.'
-- Benjamin Franklin -
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Pure philanthropy is very well in its way but philanthropy plus five percent is a good deal better.
-- Cecil RhodesSource : "Voices of Indian Freedom Movement". Book by J. C. Johari, Anmol Publications, p. 207, 1993.
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Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.
-- Charles Lamb -
Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged.
-- Chinua Achebe -
Philanthropy is the market for love. It is the market for all those people for whom there is no other market coming.
-- Dan Pallotta -
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I get great satisfaction from both business and philanthropy.
-- Donald Bren -
I truly believe that philanthropy and commerce can work together.
-- Donna Karan -
He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.
-- Douglas William Jerrold -
My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it.
-- Dr. An Wang -
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Philanthropy is activism.
-- Eli BroadSource : "Cause/Effect". Interview with David Bohnett, www.latimes.com. September 16, 2014.
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It's very difficult to be continuously charitable in a capitalistic society. You've also got to make sure that you can pay everyone who works for you.
-- Felix Dennis -
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
-- Helen Keller -
I regard philanthropy as a tragic apology for wrong conditions under which human beings live ...
-- Helen Keller -
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Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
It never was our guise to slight the poor, or aught humane despise.
-- Homer -
By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, and what to those we give, to Jove is lent.
-- Homer -
Philanthropy is no longer about writing a check for $10,000 to the opera.
-- Jacqueline Novogratz -
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.
-- James A. Baldwin -
Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.
-- James Russell LowellSource : James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.122
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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
-- John D. Rockefeller -
The sense of justice is continuous with the love of mankind.
-- John Rawls -
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My philanthropy is no relation to anybody else's. None. My philanthropy and what we do at the foundation speaks for itself and has no relation to anyone's.
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Philanthropy can take the risks that others cannot or will not.
-- Judith Rodin -
Women's philanthropic leadership is fundamental to their advancement in society.
-- Kaye Ballard -
If there is one word that describes our form of society in America, it may be the word-voluntary.
-- Lyndon B. Johnson -
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Philanthropy isn't just about big gifts; it's about participation. Â It is about the grace that comes from working together.
-- Marc Benioff -
I have failed a lot in my philanthropy, where I will make philanthropic contributions and they just won't be effective.
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Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Philanthropy is one of the most hopeful characteristics of our time.
-- Mary Livermore -
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The results of philanthropy are always beyond calculation.
-- Mary Ritter Beard -
One must know not just how to accept a gift, but with what grace to share it.
-- Maya Angelou -
Philanthropy is not about the money. It's about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world.
-- Melinda GatesSource : "Why Twitter, Why Now?" by Melinda Gates, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 21, 2011.
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Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money.
-- Michael Porter -
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Philanthropy without scale and sustainability is like any other bad business that will simply wither and die on the vine.
-- Naveen Jain -
Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.
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One of the things that I encourage for anybody who is interested in their own charity or philanthropy is to start from where you are and what has mattered to you.
-- Oprah Winfrey -
Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining.
-- Philo -
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I am convinced that music, like philanthropy, bridges hope.
-- Ricky MartinSource : "Ricky Martin giving a voice to exploited children". "CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute" with Anderson Cooper, www.cnn.com. November 16, 2010.
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If service is the rent you pay for your existence on this earth, are you behind in your rent?
-- Robert G. Allen -
I get angry when someone calls me only rich.. I am happy with my social personality and my generosity.
-- Sak?p Sabanc? -
If the sewing societies, the avails of whose industry are now expended in supporting and educating young men for the ministry, were to withdraw their contributions to these objects, and give them where they are more needed, to their advancement of their own sex in useful learning, the next generation might furnish sufficient proof, that in intelligence and ability to master the whole circle of sciences, woman is not inferior to man.
-- Sarah Moore Grimke -
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In everything I do, whether in business, philanthropy or my personal life, I am guided by my inner truth, my values.
-- Shari Arison -
Without a love of humankind there is no love of God.
-- Sholem Asch -
A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
-- Walter Scott -
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Do good with what thou hast, or it will do thee no good.
-- William Penn -
Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. -
We cannot preserve philanthropic and charitable values if we detach them completely from our fundamental personal beliefs and convictions.
-- Robert L. Payton -
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Do we live for or do we live off philanthropy?
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Philanthropy requires thought, action, and passion.
-- Robert L. Payton -
Philanthropy is the principal social institution that provides instruction in voluntary service.
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When you've got the money, you spend it. When you've spent it all, let someone else get going and spend theirs.
-- Chuck Feeney -
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Seeing results flow from my gifts is my greatest pleasure as a philanthropist - whether exonerating a jailed innocent or completing a Frank Gehry building. I want to enjoy my philanthropy.
-- Peter B. Lewis -
True salvation can come only to a person who renders service to the community.
-- Yisroel Salanter