An attitude of gratitude creates blessings. Help yourself by helping others. You have the most powerful weapons on earth - love and… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
It's time to stop obsessing about overhead and start focusing on progress. Change charity, and charity can change the world. — Dan Pallotta Copy Share Image
The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
With few exceptions, the leading women in philanthropy, notably Melinda Gates, are the wives or daughters of rich and powerful men. — Kavita Ramdas Copy Share Image
You have had your last bad meal. But, you have also heard your last honest compliment, and you have lost your last… — Abraham Flexner Copy Share Image
True philanthropy requires a disruptive mindset, innovative thinking and a philosophy driven by entrepreneurial insights and creative opportunities. — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
ANYONE WHO GIVES ANYTHING—TIME, MONEY, EXPERIENCE, SKILLS, AND NETWORKS—IN ANY AMOUNT, TO CREATE A BETTER WORLD. — Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen Copy Share Image
“Philanthropy is not about money...its about feeling the pain of others and caring enough about their needs to help.” — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is an unwritten social rule now that you can harangue the wealthy to give money away, but you mustn't ask how… — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
Charity is a supreme virtue, and the great channel through which the mercy of God is passed on to mankind. It is… — Conrad Hilton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
My goal is to change perception about giving money for charity. A lot of people still think that this is only for… — Lee Min-ho Copy Share Image
The last, best fruit which comes to late perfection, even in the kindliest soul, is tenderness toward the hard, forbearance toward the… — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
In philanthropy, many of us give a little bit and each year we give more and more to see what actually works… — John Paul DeJoria Copy Share Image
In the ideal world, philanthropy should be redundant or at least it should be at the edges, as innovation or risk capital.… — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
“The next speaker, Dr. Joseph Bonds, a little rat-faced Negro with protruding teeth stained by countless plugs of chewing tobacco and wearing… — George S. Schuyler Copy Share Image
God never estimates what we give from impulse. We are given credit for what we determine in our hearts to give; for… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
One of the greatest things you have in life is that no one has the authority to tell you what you want… — Jaime Escalante Copy Share Image
Conservatives, who have presumed that the key to preventing AIDS is abstinence-only education, and liberals, who have focused on distribution of condoms,… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
Whatever expenditure is sanctioned - even when it is sanctioned against the ministry's wish - the ministry must find the money. Accordingly,… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
I know nothing of philosophical philanthropy. But I know what I have seen, and what I have looked in the face in… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I confess that I have hitherto indulged very little in philanthropic enterprises… While my townsmen and women are devoted in somany ways… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I am convinced that only by applying the values of an entrepreneur to philanthropy will you ever be able to meet the… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
When wealth is centralized, the people are dispersed. When wealth is distributed, the people are brought together. — Confucius Copy Share Image
...it is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man if he will make a business of it. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“The man who dies rich dies disgraced leaving the earth without making it better than he met it. Give to humanity.” — Adedayo Olabamiji Copy Share Image
How I see my career is very much as an entrepreneur in the field of philanthropy. — Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen Copy Share Image
The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next. — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
We believe that human rights transcend boundaries and must prevail over state sovereignty. — Jose Ramos-Horta Copy Share Image
Believe in something larger than yourself ... to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time. — Barbara Bush Copy Share Image
You cannot mandate philanthropy. It has to come from within, and when it does, it is deeply satisfying. — Azim Premji Copy Share Image
“Selfless giving unto others represents one's true wealth. Give without remembering, and receive without forgetting. Give back in some way.” — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
We must serve consciously as caring role models, emphasizing the ethic of service, not consumption. — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
I believe that each of us-no matter what our age or background or walk of life-each of us has something to contribute… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
There is a natural law, a Divine law, that obliges you and me to relieve the suffering, the distressed and the destitute. — Conrad Hilton Copy Share Image
Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
