Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
As a tither you automatically become solution-oriented rather than problem-oriented. — Mark Victor Hansen Copy Share Image
Social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty. — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
a man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away the more he had. — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
Philanthropy can be integrated into business. I believe strongly that companies can be incredible agents of good in the world. — Marc Benioff Copy Share Image
Philanthropy isn't just about big gifts; it's about participation. It is about the grace that comes from working together. — Marc Benioff Copy Share Image
The best rule for philanthropy is to give until it hurts, as much as you can, because none of us can get… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, himself, his hungering neighbor and me. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
There's a dark underside to philanthropy. People who give a bunch of money are deferred to, even when they are wrong. The… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I… — William Penn Copy Share Image
We see community organizations as major service providers and economic drivers rather than as recipients or distributors of charity, and coordinators of… — Julia Gillard Copy Share Image
There is in Aristotle an almost complete absence of what may be called benevolence or philanthropy. The sufferings of mankind . .… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A world in which government is burdened by historic debt, philanthropy has limited resources, and the private sector is only interested in… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
But charity is a very complicated thing. Its important to find an area where you can really help and you can feel… — Roman Abramovich Copy Share Image
One percent of the equity, 1 percent of the profits, and 1 percent of the people go into Google.org. The most important… — Larry Brilliant Copy Share Image
You have to build a culture of philanthropy. In a country like India, we need to be sensitive and caring about the… — Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Copy Share Image
It's really one of my all-time favorite things to do. To go out and really see the kids and visit the moms… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
“Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken by as commonly assumed, that we may be adequately… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Through their donations and work for voluntary organizations, the charitable rich exert enormous influence in society. As philanthropists, they acquire status within… — Teresa Odendahl Copy Share Image
Many of the problems of poverty and need are really problems of physical infrastructure: not enough hospitals, too few schools, insufficient roads,… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
“The moral which presents itself to my reflections, as drawn from Hollingsworth's character and errors, is simply this, that, admitting what is… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Another activity that isn’t celebrated as charity is what Robin has called “marginal charity.”65 Here the idea is to nudge our personal… — Kevin Simler Copy Share Image
God never estimates what we give from impulse. We are given credit for what we determine in our hearts to give; for… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Conservatives, who have presumed that the key to preventing AIDS is abstinence-only education, and liberals, who have focused on distribution of condoms,… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate… — George Washington Carver Copy Share Image
Legal plunder has two roots: One, as we have just seen, is in human selfishness; the other is in false philanthropy. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
I don't go looking for somewhere to spend my money. You can step on a tube of toothpaste for a week, if… — T. Boone Pickens Copy Share Image
Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-caluculated less or more. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Philanthropy is the thing that I am really excited about, and having success means I can do more. — will.i.am Copy Share Image
One of the great conundrums in philanthropy globally is that the way wealth creation happens itself often creates the inequities in society. — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
I was trained from the beginning to work, to save. I have always regarded it a as a religious duty to get… — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale. — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
“There's nothing wrong in being rich and famous, so long as you're giving back more than you're keeping for yourself.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
