Best Philanthropy Qoutes
347 Philanthropy quotes by 228 unique authors
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Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province…
— David Rockefeller
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My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.
— David Rockefeller
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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
— John D. Rockefeller
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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism…
— Jonathan Sacks
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One of the things that I realize is that if you look at big business, I mean, they - and what they fund and what…
— Rick Santorum
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We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
— Virginia Satir
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I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those…
— Albert Schweitzer
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The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have…
— Walter Scott
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Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
— Dr. Seuss
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Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
— William Shakespeare
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'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.
— William Shakespeare
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If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
— Mother Teresa
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Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I…
— Ted Turner
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
— Booker T. Washington
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
— H.G. Wells
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Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at…
— John Wesley
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That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
— William Wordsworth
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Engaging in social business is beneficial to a company because it leverages on business competencies to address social issues, involves one-time investment with sustainable results,…
— Muhammad Yunus
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Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others
— Denis Diderot
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It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance…
— Joseph Heller
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I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to…
— William Penn
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The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members
— Pearl S. Buck
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