Philanthropy Quotes · Page 8

Wealth is not to feed our egos but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves.

— Andrew Carnegie

We are all part of the human family and we should be about doing what all good families do - caring for…

— Dan O'Neill

Be discriminating when dispensing charity. In the name of charity or philanthropy, we tend to do injustice to one's country.

— Sathya Sai Baba

Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles.

— Henry Ward Beecher

India's connection with philanthropy didn't begin with western influences. The connection with philanthropy is age-old and ingrained in our value systems.

— Shiv Nadar

You want to be paid as well, you virtuous! You want reward for virtue, and heaven for earth, and eternity for your…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

As a tither you automatically become solution-oriented rather than problem-oriented.

— Mark Victor Hansen

Social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty.

— Jane Addams

Who can begrudge the generosity of the wealthy, you might say. Wherever you stand on the concentration of wealth and power in…

— Owen Jones

Don't let people tell you to do it this way. You are on the verge of figuring out hybrid models -- with…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

I wanted to win to feed the hungry people of my community. I didn't want to win to buy a diamond.. I…

— Mr. T

Mark Zuckerberg recently announced that he will donate $45 billion of his wealth to philanthropy. Two years ago, my husband and I…

— Zhang Xin

You have to feel more involved than just writing out a cheque. Charity is almost the wrong word - I think people…

— Joanna Lumley

“ (About philanthropy...) Share what you've been given. It may not keep you from the psychiatrist's couch...but it just might keep the…

— Donna J. Stone

The word ‘philanthropy’ brings up an image of somebody who’s had an illustrious career, has retired and is giving to highly established…

— Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders.

— Warren Christopher

I started, with three friends, this website called Crowdrise that's sort of the Facebook for personal philanthropy, a place where anybody can…

— Edward Norton

Aside from higher considerations, charity often operates as a vastly wise and prudent principle-a great safeguard to its possessor. Men have committed…

— Herman Melville

A man may be a Bah' in name only. If he is a Bah' in reality, his deeds and actions will be…

— Abdu'l-Bahá

“Another word for private philanthropy, with different negative connotations, is charity. Charity was of course one of the principal obligations of the…

— Mencius Moldbug

Service-learning is a particularly fertile way of involving young people in community service, because it ties helping others to what they are…

— Colin Powell

Contrary to Piketty’s rentier hypothesis, I don’t see anyone on the [Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans] whose ancestors bought a…

— Bill Gates

Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day…

— Albert Camus

“In my view, philanthropy goes against the grain; therefore it generates a lot of hypocrisy and many paradoxes. Here are some examples:…

— George Soros

The kind uncles and aunts of the race are more esteemed than its true spiritual fathers and mothers.

— Henry David Thoreau

Pure philanthropy is very well in its way but philanthropy plus five percent is a good deal better.

— Cecil Rhodes

Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.

— Sandra Cisneros

I think the great livers, the people who are fully self-actualizing and alive, are the great givers.

— Mark Victor Hansen

It's very difficult to be continuously charitable in a capitalistic society. You've also got to make sure that you can pay everyone…

— Felix Dennis

To help others all it takes is a compassionate heart, and a willingness to be needed. Dr.James Dazouloute

— DrJames Dazouloute

I have a philanthropy advisor, Hari Menon, who was earlier at the Gates Foundation.

— Rohini Nilekani

There is a stupid humility that is quite common and when a person is afflicted with it, he is once and for…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I firmly believe that philanthropy is most effective and outcome-oriented when you ensure that your pledge actually gets spent.

— Shiv Nadar

I've never been one who enjoys maintaining the status quo. I'm always pushing for new ideas, whether it's in business or philanthropy.

— Eli Broad

As I see it, most major philanthropists have been bullied into giving. They feel social pressure to give. It has become a…

— Steven Levitt

In my experience, the more successful an idea is, the easier it is to fund it. In philanthropy, it's almost harder.

— Stanley Druckenmiller

We are responsible for the world in which we find ourselves, if only because we are the only sentient force which can…

— James A. Baldwin

We cannot preserve philanthropic and charitable values if we detach them completely from our fundamental personal beliefs and convictions.

— Robert L. Payton

Society can't wait. It's sad there are so many entrepreneurs, business successes and venture capitalists who give no thought to society.

— Les Wexner

If there is one word that describes our form of society in America, it may be the word-voluntary.

— Lyndon B. Johnson