Philanthropic Quotes · Page 3

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

— Wickliffe Rose

Much corporate giving is charitable in nature rather than philanthropic.

— David Rockefeller

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

— Marc Benioff

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

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

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

— Homer

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

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

— Bill Gates

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

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

— Cotton Mather

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

— Lionel Stander

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

There is no cause half so sacred as the cause of the people. There is no idea so uplifting as the idea…

— Woodrow Wilson

New York is a great place to be if you want to make an impact and be involved in charities or philanthropic…

— Justin Tuck

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

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

— Shakira

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

— Oprah Winfrey

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

— Kenya Moore

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

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

— Dikembe Mutombo

The continent is incredibly exciting. When I first went there, it consumed me, and I instantly felt like I wanted to be…

— Veronika Varekova

The philanthropic tradition is older than democracy, older than Christianity, and older than higher education. It gives form and purpose to personal…

— Robert L. Payton

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

— Confucius

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

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

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

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

— Patrick Schwarzenegger

Every time we do anything, Austin's the No. 1 place of all that supports it. Austin is our biggest philanthropic helper, even…

— Bobby Bones

We can walk when we want to, we can build many things, but if we do not witness to Jesus Christ then…

— Pope Francis

The Miss America Organization's philanthropic arm is particularly appealing to me, as I have made it my mission to give back in…

— Carolyn Aronson

What the poor need is not charity but capital, not caseworkers but coworkers. And what the rich need is a wise, honorable…

— Clarence Jordan

He who has conferred a benefit on anyone from motives of love or honor will feel pain, if he sees that the…

— Aristotle

I make a personal commitment to the direction and success of all the programs in which I invest. I make all major…

— Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi

Naming rights are a seductive philanthropic inducement, yet more anonymous operational support may better advance the charitable purpose.

— George Kaiser

People can make symbolic gestures but doesn't mean their life changes. One philanthropic moment doesn't make a life of renewal; of change.

— Tim Winton

My father... very generous, very philanthropic, very charitable man. My siblings and I and my mother continue with always appreciating and always…

— Steve Tisch