My family has a history in philanthropy, and I want to continue that legacy. — Spencer Dinwiddie Copy Share Image
Every single national park had some component of private philanthropy. — Douglas Tompkins Copy Share Image
Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
'Giving 2.0' was born of my desire to redefine and democratize philanthropy. — Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen Copy Share Image
It's time to stop obsessing about overhead and start focusing on progress. Change charity, and charity can change the world. — Dan Pallotta Copy Share Image
What role can such philanthropy play in a society like ours? For one, philanthropic capital can go where markets will not go… — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
An attitude of gratitude creates blessings. Help yourself by helping others. You have the most powerful weapons on earth - love and… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
I love my fellow creatures - I do all the good I can - yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man! — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
Ideals are thoughts. So long as they exist merely as thoughts, the power in them remains ineffective. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“A humanitarian seldom makes a good lover. For a lover’s world revolves around their lover, while a humanitarian’s world revolves around the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
He who has conferred a benefit on anyone from motives of love or honor will feel pain, if he sees that the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Michael Porter said that “corporations can use philanthropy to improve their competitive context” — Anonymous 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
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
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
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
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
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
If you think of life as like a big pie, you can try to hold the whole pie and kill yourself trying… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
It is not a question of patronizing philanthropy towards disabled people. They do not need the patronage of the non-disabled. It is… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
... our scholarships should be bestowed on those whose ability and earnestness in the primary department have been proved, and whose capacity… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
I've seen how important this concept is in business. To be truly successful, companies need to have a corporate mission that is… — Marc Benioff Copy Share Image
There is perhaps no sort of self more subject to dangerous egotism than that which deludes itself with the notion that it… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
I don't care if you're a parent giving to a child, a worker to a company, or a romantic to a lover,… — John Frederick Demartini Copy Share Image
School performance, public health, crime rates, clinical depression, tax compliance, philanthropy, race relations, community development, census returns, teen suicide, economic productivity, campaign… — Robert D. Putnam Copy Share Image
The only role other than paying their taxes, whatever those are, the only role for philanthropy broadly - of which the rich… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If you have the abilities to earn a lot of money and if you have the character to persist in giving that… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Our aim is to set some kind of benchmark and standards for transparency and governance in private philanthropy. — Roshni Nadar Copy Share Image
Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Many things in life inspire philanthropy, such as your faith in humanity and your belief in the human spirit to overcome. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
For me, campaigning and good business is also about putting forward solutions, not just opposing destructive practices or human rights abuses. — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
My philanthropy is no relation to anybody else's. None. My philanthropy and what we do at the foundation speaks for itself and… — Jon Bon Jovi Copy Share Image
Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Humanity, in the aggregate, is progressing, and philanthropy looks forward hopefully. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned. — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
