Philanthropy is to give without being asked. Giving at asking is a compliment. — Mohammad MUSTAFA Copy Share Image
Great men cultivate love...only little men cherish a spirit of hatred — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
Philanthropy is one of the most hopeful characteristics of our time. — Mary Livermore Copy Share Image
A personal injustice is stronger motivation than any instinct for philanthropy. — John Irving Copy Share Image
I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give. — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what they right hand doeth. — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
Philanthropy is never understood by those who don't have it in their own hearts. — Chris de Burgh Copy Share Image
Successful charitable fund-raising has much in common with managing a business: It requires leadership, persistence, and creativity. — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is a natural law, a Divine law, that obliges you and me to relieve the suffering, the distressed and the destitute. — Conrad Hilton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Selfless giving unto others represents one's true wealth. Give without remembering, and receive without forgetting. Give back in some way.” — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
We must serve consciously as caring role models, emphasizing the ethic of service, not consumption. — Marian Wright Edelman 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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day… — Albert Camus 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
Service-learning is a particularly fertile way of involving young people in community service, because it ties helping others to what they are… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
“Another word for private philanthropy, with different negative connotations, is charity. Charity was of course one of the principal obligations of the… — Mencius Moldbug Copy Share Image
A man may be a Bah' in name only. If he is a Bah' in reality, his deeds and actions will be… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
Aside from higher considerations, charity often operates as a vastly wise and prudent principle-a great safeguard to its possessor. Men have committed… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I started, with three friends, this website called Crowdrise that's sort of the Facebook for personal philanthropy, a place where anybody can… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
“All agree that, the first responsibility for the alleviation of poverty and distress and for the care of the victims of the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
All philanthropy is only a savoury fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer. — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
“When you have power and use it for destructive purpose: you don't deserve it.” — Udai Yadla Copy Share Image
The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One must know not just how to accept a gift, but with what grace to share it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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