Philanthropy Quotes · Page 6

When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them.

— Anonymous

Money is only unused power. The real purpose of wealth, after food, clothing and shelter, is philanthropy.

— Leon Levy

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

— Woodrow Wilson

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

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

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

— Stanley Druckenmiller

Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined.

— James Cook

I have much more confidence in the charity which begins in the home and diverges into a large humanity, than in the…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

I've always been a dreamer...or let's just say I kept my options open. In my heart, I knew singing was gonna be…

— Rihanna

I think Christians should be leaders in art, science, philanthropy, charity, and all kinds of good works. We should be good examples…

— Matt Smith

The Bharat Ram family was into philanthropy a way earlier. They build institutes such as Shri Ram College of Commerce, Lady Shri…

— Shiv Nadar

“Philanthropists should find innovations that release the energies of people. Individuals don't want to be taken care of --they need to be…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

Every individual's purpose in tithing is to open up his/her awareness of universal laws. Tithing opens you, to you. You are an…

— Mark Victor Hansen

There's no substitute for rolling up your sleeves and working with the people who can make a difference. They get the benefit…

— Michael Milken

If you think of global public goods like polio eradication, the kind of risk-taking new approach, philanthropy really does have a role…

— Bill Gates

I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to…

— Anonymous

I used to be opposed to the idea of social entrepreneurship. I said, you know, let business be business, and philanthropy be…

— George Soros

I will help-but only so much, only so far. It is not that I believe these children are less than my own.…

— Sharman Apt Russell

... the hey-day of a woman's life is on the shady side of fifty, when the vital forces heretofore expended in other…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

There is one kind of charity common enough among us... It is that patchwork philanthropy which clothes the ragged, feeds the poor,…

— Jamsetji Tata

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 constitutionality and propriety of the Federal Government assuming to enter into a novel and vast field of legislation, namely, that of…

— Franklin Pierce

If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the…

— Warren Buffett

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

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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

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

— Mark Victor Hansen

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

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

— Shiv Nadar

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— DrJames Dazouloute

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

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

— Jane Addams

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

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

— Sathya Sai Baba

In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to…

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Dan O'Neill