Philanthropy Quotes · Page 5

Don't just put it off and think about it!

— Horace

Our mission is to help students in need and to democratize philanthropy.

— Charles Best

Love ever your neighbour as yourselves - but first be such as love themselves.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Charity should be done from the heart not from the pocket.

— Vikrant Parsai

Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged.

— Chinua Achebe

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can.

— John Wesley

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

— Azim Premji

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

— Barbara Bush

We believe that human rights transcend boundaries and must prevail over state sovereignty.

— Jose Ramos-Horta

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

— Melinda Gates

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

— Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

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

— Adedayo Olabamiji

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Confucius

Apart from being motivation for themselves, I think big givers should also talk about their philanthropy so that their work and their…

— Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

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

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

I was fortunate to get a scholarship when I went to Lehigh University and Princeton. They were both wonderful schools. Somebody was…

— Lee Iacocca

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

“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

Living truth is that alone which has its origins in thinking. Just as a tree bears year after year the same fruit…

— Albert Schweitzer

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

Perhaps the perusal of such works may, without injustice, be compared with the use of opiates, baneful, when habitually and constantly resorted…

— Walter Scott

Princeton has made an enormous difference in my life, and I am delighted to be able to express my gratitude in such…

— Gordon Wu

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

— Anonymous

The Americans, on the contrary, are fond of explaining almost all the actions of their lives by the principle of interest rightly…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

In the philanthropy game, you're going for different outcomes: saving childhood lives, having kids grow up - because they don't have malnutrition…

— Bill Gates

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

... 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

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

— Marc Benioff

Being kind to others is a way of being good to yourself.

— Harold S. Kushner

The good-they cannot create; they are always the beginning of the end.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I really love people and I believe in philanthropy and advocacy.

— Ariana DeBose

That cause is strong which has, not a multitude, but one strong man behind it.

— James Russell Lowell

I'm a technologist by origin and by training, but I'm focused on philanthropy.

— Pierre Omidyar

It's more blessed to give than to receive - especially kittens.

— Bill Cosby

For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

— Anonymous

I get great satisfaction from both business and philanthropy.

— Donald Bren