A pious woman's neighbor, a philanthropist's child, a liberal's servant--these three have a hard life. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Wealth is not to feed our egos but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves. — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
I would say to young entrepreneurs and budding philanthropists - are you giving to feel good or do good? — Andrew Forrest Copy Share Image
I am not giving so much of my wealth that I should feel that I am a philanthropist. — Rakesh Jhunjhunwala Copy Share Image
“(a hangover without a head to torment is like a philanthropist without an institution to endow),” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist. — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I'm not a philanthropist. While I care about the poor, the issue of local or global poverty doesn't keep me up at… — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
“A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
People not only want to support public schools, but people warm to this idea of being a philanthropist, even if they might… — Charles Best Copy Share Image
Let us be Christians toward our fellow-whites, as well as philanthropists toward the blacks our fellow-men. In all things, and toward all,… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
... we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Princess Diana was a wonderful, caring philanthropist. She would come sometimes into the church and sit at the back and pray. — Princess Diana Copy Share Image
Let ideas establish their legitimate sway again in society, let life be fair and poetic, and the scholars will gladly be lovers,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The philanthropist, the politician, and the pimp are inevitably found in alliance because they have the same motives, they seek the same… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
In my view, a philanthropist is anyone who gives anything - time, money, experience, skills or networks - in any amount, to… — Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen Copy Share Image
Self-interest is not myopic selfishness. It is whatever it is that interests the participants, whatever they value, whatever goals they pursue. The… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Most organizations should be pro-active, but philanthropists concerned with poverty should deliberately be reactive, learning from the efforts of ordinary folks who… — Marvin Olasky Copy Share Image
“To us children he (Mr Ewing) was our very own ‘Mr Chips’ and invariably we would each receive half a crown whenever… — Bill Scott Copy Share Image
Religious literature has eminent examples, and if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The problem for most of us is that the cup has holes, so love goes out just as easily as it goes… — Marci Shimoff Copy Share Image
He's (husband Russell) raising all this money for children, and blah blah blah. The world sees the philanthropist, the entrepreneur, the businessman,… — Kimora Lee Simmons Copy Share Image
There is, however, a moral basis for the vegetarian diet for which the indeterminate value of an animal's life takes on irrelevance.… — Howard Lyman Copy Share Image
Personally, I've always been a philanthropist. I've always given away turkeys and did gift giveaways. — JaVale McGee Copy Share Image
I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
I am not Christ or a philanthropist, old lady, I am all the contrary of a Christ... — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
“You become a true philanthropist only when you empty yourself to be a blessing to others without expecting anything in return” — Topsy Gift Copy Share Image
You can invest in companies, you can help grow companies, you can be a venture capitalist - and be a philanthropist at… — Pierre Omidyar Copy Share Image
As a philanthropist, I give away a lot of money every year. Yet I thought there was a higher leverage to come… — Jeffrey Skoll Copy Share Image
A charitable man is like an apple tree-he gives his fruit and is silent; the philanthropist is like the successful hen. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
I am a community activist, philanthropist, breast cancer survivor, advocate and founder and board chair of the Thelma D. Jones Breast Cancer… — Thelma Jones Copy Share Image
More good has been accomplished by simple people seeking their own honest ends than by all the philanthropists in history. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that… — Vartan Gregorian Copy Share Image
“Philanthropist. A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket...” — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Seeing results flow from my gifts is my greatest pleasure as a philanthropist - whether exonerating a jailed innocent or completing a… — Peter B. Lewis Copy Share Image
I am an actress, a producer, a philanthropist, a wife, and above all a mommy to my beautiful babies, Leonardo and Valentino. — Joyce Giraud Copy Share Image
Apart from acting and singing, there is a philanthropist inside me who craves to do something for the needy and less fortunate. — Roop Durgapal Copy Share Image
Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would want to… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
