Philanthropy Quotes · Page 10

I am convinced that only by applying the values of an entrepreneur to philanthropy will you ever be able to meet the…

— Naveen Jain

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

— Confucius

...it is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man if he will make a business of it.

— Benjamin Franklin

“The man who dies rich dies disgraced leaving the earth without making it better than he met it. Give to humanity.”

— Adedayo Olabamiji

How I see my career is very much as an entrepreneur in the field of philanthropy.

— Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.

— Melinda Gates

I believe that each of us-no matter what our age or background or walk of life-each of us has something to contribute…

— Michelle Obama

Believe in something larger than yourself ... to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.

— Barbara Bush

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

I offered up a special prayer, a prayer which came with tears and anguish, that some way would open up for me…

— Dorothy Day

I do not want to live under a philanthropy. I do not want to be taken care of by the government… We…

— Woodrow Wilson

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

You have to feel more involved than just writing out a cheque. Charity is almost the wrong word - I think people…

— Joanna Lumley

Mark Zuckerberg recently announced that he will donate $45 billion of his wealth to philanthropy. Two years ago, my husband and I…

— Zhang Xin

“ (About philanthropy...) Share what you've been given. It may not keep you from the psychiatrist's couch...but it just might keep the…

— Donna J. Stone

Who can begrudge the generosity of the wealthy, you might say. Wherever you stand on the concentration of wealth and power in…

— Owen Jones

Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment. In the last analysis, the welfare…

— Samuel Gompers

It is time for corporate America to become 'the third pillar' of social change in our society, complementing the first two pillars…

— Simon Mainwaring

The paths by which people journey toward happiness lie in part through the world about them and in part through the experience…

— Carl Hilty

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

— Jamsetji Tata

You can do things in every part of the world. You can do things in every discipline. You can do large things,…

— Marc Benioff

... 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

The type and formula of most schemes of philanthropy or humanitarianism is this: A and B put their heads together to decide…

— William Graham Sumner

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

You cannot mandate philanthropy. It has to come from within, and when it does, it is deeply satisfying.

— Azim Premji

We must serve consciously as caring role models, emphasizing the ethic of service, not consumption.

— Marian Wright Edelman

“Selfless giving unto others represents one's true wealth. Give without remembering, and receive without forgetting. Give back in some way.”

— Germany Kent

Successful charitable fund-raising has much in common with managing a business: It requires leadership, persistence, and creativity.

— David Rockefeller

Philanthropy is never understood by those who don't have it in their own hearts.

— Chris de Burgh

Philanthropy is not about the money. It's about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the…

— Melinda Gates

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

There is a natural law, a Divine law, that obliges you and me to relieve the suffering, the distressed and the destitute.

— Conrad Hilton

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

Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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

— Michael Bloomberg

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

In philanthropy, you have to take the attitude of a mother... You have to be patient, and we have been very patient…

— Shiv Nadar

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

— Charles Best

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

— Homer

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

— Mother Teresa