Causes Quote by John D. Rockefeller

Philanthropy is all about making a positive difference in the world by devoting your resources and your time to causes you believe in. In…

— Jeffrey Skoll

The best philanthropy is not just about giving money but giving leadership. The best philanthropists bring the gifts that made them successful-the drive, the…

— Tony Blair

I realize there are few sectors that can do what philanthropy does, which is look at big problems, take a long term view, try…

— Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey

Philanthropy is loving, and ameliorative, revolutionary; it wakens lofty desires, new possibilities, achievements, and energies; ... it touches thought to spiritual issues, systematizes action,…

— Mary Baker Eddy

Philanthropy is one of the most hopeful characteristics of our time.

— Mary Livermore

Though easy to define, it is important to understand the significance of philanthropy. I believe it is really a state of mind: where one…

— Shiv Nadar

Philanthropy lies at the heart of human greatness.

— Patrick J. Ryan

The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.

— Calvin Coolidge

Many things in life inspire philanthropy, such as your faith in humanity and your belief in the human spirit to overcome.

— Oprah Winfrey

“Philanthropy" means "love of mankind." Collective love is at the core of justice. The wealthiest among us, those who have the broadest horizons to…

— Ralph Nader

A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some…

— Walter Scott

Bill [Gates] and I believe philanthropy can only be effective if it starts things and proves whether they actually work or not. That's the…

— Melinda Gates