To have made even one person's life a little better, that is to succeed. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My family has a history in philanthropy, and I want to continue that legacy. — Spencer Dinwiddie Copy Share Image
Every single national park had some component of private philanthropy. — Douglas Tompkins Copy Share Image
I regard philanthropy as a tragic apology for wrong conditions under which human beings live. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
The practice of charity will bind us...will bind all men in one great brotherhood. — Conrad Hilton Copy Share Image
“There may be nothing in the world so dangerous as a wealthy woman with good intentions.” — Lloyd Mullins Copy Share Image
Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“There's nothing wrong in being rich and famous, so long as you're giving back more than you're keeping for yourself.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Philanthropy is the thing that I am really excited about, and having success means I can do more. — will.i.am Copy Share Image
Legal plunder has two roots: One, as we have just seen, is in human selfishness; the other is in false philanthropy. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
I don't go looking for somewhere to spend my money. You can step on a tube of toothpaste for a week, if… — T. Boone Pickens Copy Share Image
You have to feel more involved than just writing out a cheque. Charity is almost the wrong word - I think people… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end,… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Copy Share Image
All philanthropy ... is only a savory fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer. This incense offering makes the air more… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today.… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
When time permits, I try to see interesting people in the cities I visit. In Seattle, I met Paul Allen, the co-founder… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
We have previously suggested that philanthropy combines genuine pity with the display of power and that the latter element explains why the… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Everyone wants charities to spend as little as possible on overhead. That's backwards. Overhead is what drives growth. If charities can't grow,… — Dan Pallotta Copy Share Image
“[I]f you don't feel or look rich, you don't necessarily feel the same sense of obligation that a traditional rich person does… — Ellen Cushing Copy Share Image
I have said, and I believe, that potentially we have in this country a free enterprise system of radio and television which… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
My father, a bookkeeper who never earned more than $11,000 a year in his life, sat there, writing out a $25 check… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
If to be venerated for benevolence, if to be admired for talents, if to be esteemed for patriotism, if to be beloved… — George Washington Copy Share Image
We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do.… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
We tell the for-profit sector, 'Spend, spend, spend on advertising until the last dollar no longer produces a penny of value,' but… — Dan Pallotta Copy Share Image
“This is perhaps as good a place as any to point out that what distinguishes many reformers from those who cannot accept… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I also think that employees these days expect less of a separation of work and personal life. That doesn't mean that work… — Marc Benioff Copy Share Image
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