Philanthropy Quotes

347 Philanthropy quotes by 228 unique authors

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
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. — Booker T. Washington
What really matters is what you do with what you have. — H.G. Wells
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
That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. — William Wordsworth
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
Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others — Denis Diderot
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
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
The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members — Pearl S. Buck
Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged. — Chinua Achebe
Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist… — Oliver Wendell Holmes
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
I choose to rise up out of that storm and see that in moments of desperation, fear, and helplessness, each of us can be a… — Oprah Winfrey
a man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away the more he had. — John Bunyan
If youâ€™re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per… — Warren Buffett
Perhaps the perusal of such works may, without injustice, be compared with the use of opiates, baneful, when habitually and constantly resorted to, but of… — Walter Scott
Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic. — Oscar Wilde
It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give… — Mother Teresa
What would the daughters of the rich do with themselves if the poor ceased to exist? — Angela Carter

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