Philanthropy Quotes · Page 10

ANYONE WHO GIVES ANYTHING—TIME, MONEY, EXPERIENCE, SKILLS, AND NETWORKS—IN ANY AMOUNT, TO CREATE A BETTER WORLD.

— Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

You have had your last bad meal. But, you have also heard your last honest compliment, and you have lost your last…

— Abraham Flexner

True philanthropy requires a disruptive mindset, innovative thinking and a philosophy driven by entrepreneurial insights and creative opportunities.

— Naveen Jain

With few exceptions, the leading women in philanthropy, notably Melinda Gates, are the wives or daughters of rich and powerful men.

— Kavita Ramdas

Everyone knows about Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Now help me spread the word about Giving Tuesday!

— Bill Gates

It's just not our style to put our names on the philanthropy we've done. It's not in the Jewish tradition of tzedakah.

— Norman Braman

When we see a special reformer we feel like asking him, What right have you, sir, to your own virtue? Is virtue…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What would the daughters of the rich do with themselves if the poor ceased to exist?

— Angela Carter

By making all my materials freely available through 'Giving 2.0' ProjectU, I am on a mission to extend philanthropy education to colleges…

— Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

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

— Cotton Mather

The only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. Our charities should pinch and hamper us. If we live…

— C. S. Lewis

The law is the collective organization of the individual's right to lawful defense of his life, liberty and property. When it is…

— Frederic Bastiat

I can honestly say that TOMS is my future. I mean I have no desire to start any other company for as…

— Blake Mycoskie

The best philanthropy is not just about giving money but giving leadership. The best philanthropists bring the gifts that made them successful-the…

— Tony Blair

We should all be proud of the many contributions Hellenes have made in our society, especially in the areas of science, medicine,…

— Nicole Malliotakis

Seeing results flow from my gifts is my greatest pleasure as a philanthropist - whether exonerating a jailed innocent or completing a…

— Peter B. Lewis

We do not by any means think it desirable that the kingdom of righteousness and peace should be established on earth (because…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gifts...Thus a heavy…

— C. S. Lewis

Philanthropy, although it's tiny compared to the government, it's 2% of the US economy, which is the largest percentage, other than the…

— Bill Gates

When you've got the money, you spend it. When you've spent it all, let someone else get going and spend theirs.

— Chuck Feeney

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

— Homer

To insure the continuity of philanthropy, we must instill in kids the values and attitudes that will enable them to see charity…

— Mary Leonard

My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it.

— Anonymous

To steale the Hog, and give the feet for almes. [To steal the hog, and give the feet to alms.]

— George Herbert

When I started teaching at Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2000, no field-based courses in strategic philanthropy existed.

— Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

“Success is not a finite resource; share it, wish it on others, and celebrate others”

— Savania China

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

The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.

— Calvin Coolidge

It is not the magnitude of our actions, but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.

— Mother Teresa

In every sorrowing soul I pour'd delight, And poverty stood smiling in my sight.

— Homer

I think philanthropy is so much more in keeping with spirit of shouting someone out than a material reward.

— Charles Best

Often people ask me about getting involved in service and philanthropy, and my first advice is: Make sure it's real and it's…

— Kenneth Cole

I've always respected those who tried to change the world for the better, rather than just complain about it.

— Michael Bloomberg

Today, philanthropy is a very unsophisticated, old world process where people who make a shitload of money go and give it away…

— Peter Diamandis

I think all philanthropy invests in product innovation, whether in a vaccine or a new kind of product of one sort or…

— Judith Rodin

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

This [philanthropy] work is even more fascinating. It requires us to think harder about how we build partnerships, who we get behind.…

— Bill Gates

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the creative light of altruism or the darkness of destructive selfishness. This is…

— Martin Luther