The Girl Scouts is where I became acquainted with the idea that a woman can do anything. Learning that early on has… — Lisa Ling Copy Share Image
I've always said that the better off you are, the more responsibility you have for helping others — Carlos Slim Copy Share Image
To regard states of distress in general as an objection, as something which must be abolished is the greatest nonsense on earth;… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In my view, a philanthropist is anyone who gives anything - time, money, experience, skills or networks - in any amount, to… — Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen Copy Share Image
Our age is pre-eminently the age of sympathy, as the eighteenth century was the age of reason. Our ideal men and women… — Frances E. Willard Copy Share Image
We started our foundation because we believe we have a real opportunity to help advance equity around the world, to help make… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
The private sector must play a role in ensuring the prosperity and health of the people who comprise its market. It is… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
If service is the rent you pay for your existence on this earth, are you behind in your rent? — Robert G. Allen Copy Share Image
My religion is humanitarianism , which is the basis of every religion in the world. — Abdul Sattar Edhi Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“That day, I learned that I could be a giver by simply bringing a smile to another person. The ensuing years have… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Every woman who has any margin of time or money to spare should adopt some one public interest, some philanthropic undertaking,or some… — Frances Power Cobbe Copy Share Image
How can the physique be braced if no fresh breath from the outer world is suffered to permeate the languid, enervating air… — Harriot Kezia Hunt Copy Share Image
There is perhaps no sort of self more subject to dangerous egotism than that which deludes itself with the notion that it… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
To have people from every continent who are working on philanthropy, on social entrepreneurship, gives me a unique opportunity to engage. — Darren Walker Copy Share Image
I hymn and bless Your uncountable compassion and philanthropy, as You desired to number me with Your chosen servants. Look down, now,… — Marina of Aguas Santas Copy Share Image
... oh, I long to prove myself by writing! The best seems to die in me when I give it up. It… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
This was the invention of modern American philanthropy as we know it. The idea of systematizing giving to achieve human progress was… — Judith Rodin 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
The religious instinct will never be replaced by law or even philanthropy. — Hugh Reginald Haweis Copy Share Image
You just work day and night if the cause in your heart is justified. You just go out and drive yourself to… — Jon M. Huntsman Sr Copy Share Image
Those of us who have yet to find philanthropy may find there is a far greater reward from it than from wealth… — John Caudwell Copy Share Image
The world and life have been mighty good to me. And I want to put something back. — Ted Turner Copy Share Image
True generosity must benefit both parties. No woman can control her destiny if she doesn't give to herself as much as she… — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
The best philanthropy is constantly in search of the finalities-a search for a cause, an attempt to cure evils at their source. — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
