Philanthropic Quotes · Page 3

“Misers makes money their lord, but the spenders makes it their slaves and servants”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

I don't think there's anything exceptional or noble in being philanthropic. It's the other attitude that confuses me.

— Paul Newman

The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members

— Pearl S. Buck

To make the peaks higher. [His reason to target philanthropic funding to only the best university science departments.]

— Wickliffe Rose

It never was our guise to slight the poor, or aught humane despise.

— Homer

“Most poor people do not really aspire to end poverty; they merely aspire to escape it.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I have failed a lot in my philanthropy, where I will make philanthropic contributions and they just won't be effective.

— Marc Benioff

Much corporate giving is charitable in nature rather than philanthropic.

— David Rockefeller

I try to pay it forward. I do a lot of philanthropic and charity work. Some of my greatest awards, greatest rewards,…

— George Perez

Philanthropic humility is necessary if a giver is to do more good than harm, but it is not sufficient - philanthropic prudence…

— Marvin Olasky

I have drifted away from thinking about these philanthropic things. And it was only as the wealth got large enough and Melinda…

— Bill Gates

My own philanthropic efforts have always included an educational element, whether it's expanding opportunities to educate a promising mind or extending the…

— Naveen Jain

When I work as a model, it feels like holiday. Doing a shoot is so light in a way that it's really…

— Natalia Vodianova

I really enjoy my philanthropic work, traveling around the world and helping people in need. That's a lot of fun for me.…

— Larry Fitzgerald

... oh, I long to prove myself by writing! The best seems to die in me when I give it up. It…

— Ruth Benedict

Instead of exhorting you to augment your charity, I will rather utter an exhortation, or at least a supplication, that you may…

— Cotton Mather

Philanthropy is often seen as society's risk capital. That means the onus is on philanthropists, nonprofit leaders and social entrepreneurs to innovate.…

— Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

I was the Chair of the WIFF Foundation, which is the philanthropic arm of Women In Film. The foundation runs the several…

— Sharon Lawrence

I choose to rise up out of that storm and see that in moments of desperation, fear, and helplessness, each of us…

— Oprah Winfrey

The goal of my philanthropic work has always been to make sure that every child has a chance to live up to…

— Shakira

I have always been involved in some philanthropic work - growing up in the church, you always had to have a reasonable…

— LaTanya Richardson

I think the beauty industry is a stepping stone in terms of pageants that will give you a launching pad to be…

— Kenya Moore

When I travel around the globe, I try as hard as I can to represent the NBA and the game of basketball…

— Dikembe Mutombo

I'm very involved in my business and with my family and my friends. I don't play the social world very much, and…

— Donna Karan

I've always respected those who tried to change the world for the better, rather than just complain about it.

— Michael Bloomberg

Helping people doesn't have to be an unsound financial strategy.

— Melinda Gates

We live in an interdependent world. Every time you cut off somebody else's opportunities, you shrink your own horizons.

— William J. Clinton

Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.

— Seneca the Younger

By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, and what to those we give, to Jove is lent.

— Homer

If you can't distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldn't undertake philanthropic work.

— Anton Chekhov

I used to do some philanthropic work, but with the political platform, I can contribute in a bigger way.

— Chiranjeevi

American philanthropic custom owes much to leadership by business and professional people.

— Robert L. Payton

When wealth is centralized, the people are dispersed. When wealth is distributed, the people are brought together.

— Confucius

It takes a noble man to plant a seed for a tree that will someday give shade to people he may never…

— D. Elton Trueblood

I'm an artist, but, as I get older, I really want to do philanthropic work and help people.

— Andie MacDowell

I'm not doing my philanthropic work, out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public relations. I'm doing…

— George Soros

I am a professional performer and I only appear on TV for entertainment or for philanthropic organizations, and I consider this a…

— Lionel Stander

Charity is a supreme virtue, and the great channel through which the mercy of God is passed on to mankind. It is…

— Conrad Hilton

The Americans make associations to give entertainment, to found seminaries, to build inns, to construct churches, to diffuse books, to send missionaries…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Fashion and wearing clothes is a daily routine for everybody. What better way to spread the word of giving back and philanthropic…

— Patrick Schwarzenegger