Charity Quote by Phyllis McGinley

I think philanthropy is so much more in keeping with spirit of shouting someone out than a material reward.

— Charles Best

“Philanthropy is not about money...its about feeling the pain of others and caring enough about their needs to help.”

— Timothy Pina

As I see it, most major philanthropists have been bullied into giving. They feel social pressure to give. It has become a cost of…

— Steven Levitt

Philanthropy is not about the money. It's about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world.

— Melinda Gates

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 [has become] simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.

— Oscar Wilde

No hint of genuine charity ameliorates our vision of society, once sentimentalism has been laid side. What passes for cooperation turns out to be…

— Michael Ghiselin

“I long to see a radical shift in philanthropy that will come to characterize the 21st century. That is, a reclaiming of the root…

— Valaida Fullwood

Philanthropy is my job.

— will.i.am

Philanthropy can take the risks that others cannot or will not.

— Judith Rodin

Earlier in this century, philanthropy often flowed from the wills of dead industrialists. In recent decades, it's as likely to have come from a…

— Michael Milken

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