By its very definition, civic responsibility means taking a healthy role in the life of one's community. That means that classroom lessons… — John Glenn Copy Share Image
I'm on a lot of nonprofit boards, but if I didn't enjoy it I wouldn't do it. I haven't yet done anything… — David Rubenstein Copy Share Image
A good deed done to an animal is as meritorious as a good deed done to a human being, while an act… — Muhammad Copy Share Image
Never think you need to apologize for asking someone to give to a worthy cause, any more than as though you were… — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
It's important for me to try my hand at philanthropy because I want to leave behind a record of someone who did… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
Music and philanthropy have a long, benevolent relationship with one another. Record bins are rife with charity singles, and concert history is… — Shawn Amos Copy Share Image
I've been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the money is going into it… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
We need to develop and disseminate an entirely new paradigm and practice of collaboration that supersedes the traditional silos that have divided… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
How about no income tax at all on people over 65? People would continue working, remain healthier, not be an economic and… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
The age looks steadily to the redressing of wrong, to the righting of every form of error and injustice; and a tireless… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
“mattress we'll give 10 percent of the revenue to charity" and mattress sales go up. You wouldn't conclude that people buy mattresses… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Philanthropy is not about giving money but about solving problems. While well-meaning, the idea of writing a check and calling it 'philanthropy'… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
I was fortunate to get a scholarship when I went to Lehigh University and Princeton. They were both wonderful schools. Somebody was… — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
I was raised in a group home for 14 years, so I was a beneficiary of philanthropy. I didn't have a family.… — Darell Hammond Copy Share Image
I deem it the duty of every man to devote a certain portion of his income for charitable purposes; and that it… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I realize there are few sectors that can do what philanthropy does, which is look at big problems, take a long term… — Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey 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
“The biggest sin in the world is not being able to love someone. Do not judge anybody by what they are, because… — Udai Yadla Copy Share Image
At DonorsChoose.org, you can give as little as $1 and get the same level of choice, transparency, and feedback that is traditionally… — Charles Best Copy Share Image
Living truth is that alone which has its origins in thinking. Just as a tree bears year after year the same fruit… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
If you have more money than you need, you have to give it away. It's a duty. I get to choose whom… — Gordon Getty 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
A press statement may be given with a very good intention, but it says nothing beyond it. If it comes from corporations… — Shiv Nadar Copy Share Image
“In other words, paradoxically, loners are the truth philanthropists. Loving nothing is equivalent to loving everything. Damn, it's only a matter of… — Wataru Watari Copy Share Image
“Philanthropy" means "love of mankind." Collective love is at the core of justice. The wealthiest among us, those who have the broadest… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
There are philanthropists who, incapable of managing their own little affairs, take upon themselves those of the whole world; but as their… — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
here are economies like China's economy where it's less than a tenth [of a percent] today, although it is growing, is quite… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Apart from being motivation for themselves, I think big givers should also talk about their philanthropy so that their work and their… — Rakesh Jhunjhunwala Copy Share Image
I really hope that the philanthropy movement is seen not just as wealthy people giving money away but wealthy people giving away… — David Rubenstein Copy Share Image
It's time to re-think charity. It's time to give charity the big-league freedoms we really give to business. The fight for these… — Dan Pallotta Copy Share Image
I never thought I would be in a position like this, where my words and experiences are now inspiring others to follow… — Blake Mycoskie Copy Share Image
Tell men that God is love; that right is right, and wrong, wrong; let them cease to admire philanthropy, and begin to… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
fashion has always been a little slow in accommodating large women. ... We're not asking for philanthropy here. Wake up, we're fat,… — Camryn Manheim Copy Share Image
She gave me a pledge card, a card promising an annual gift of $5, $10, or $25 toward the support of the… — Charles Portis Copy Share Image
The merchant must be no more pessimist than optimist, since pessimism induces him to hold back his capital but optimism induces him… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Philanthropy is loving, and ameliorative, revolutionary; it wakens lofty desires, new possibilities, achievements, and energies; ... it touches thought to spiritual issues,… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
“True humanity demands that every human should be loved equally, but if that's not possible for you then at least love whoever… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
With my business, the way you make big money is you find a great management team and a good concept, and you… — Stanley Druckenmiller Copy Share Image
![“here are economies like China's economy where it's less than a tenth [of a percent] today, although it is growing, is quite small, because of the notion that the government takes care of everything, and Europe and China, philanthropy has not been nearly of the same scale.” quote by Bill Gates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/24f/bill-gates-137_care_here-are-economies-like-china-s-economy_2293366.jpg)
