Philanthropy Quotes

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

It is a privilege to serve people, a privilege that must be earned, and once earned, there is an obligation to do something good with it.

Pure philanthropy is very well in its way but philanthropy plus five percent is a good deal better.

The sense of justice is continuous with the love of mankind.

We are responsible for the world in which we find ourselves, if only because we are the only sentient force which can change it.

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

Donate and do not talk about it, they say you do nothing for the society; do and talk about it, they say you seek publicity!

Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others.

To have made even one person's life a little better, that is to succeed.

Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged.

I urge you to celebrate the extraordinary courage and contributions of refugees past and present.

A man should make all he can, and give all he can.

True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.

We believe that human rights transcend boundaries and must prevail over state sovereignty.

The best recreation is to do good.

When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what they right hand doeth.

It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.

Philanthropy is the market for love. It is the market for all those people for whom there is no other market coming.

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

The results of philanthropy are always beyond calculation.

True salvation can come only to a person who renders service to the community.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

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

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

Politics is social work with power.

Don't just put it off and think about it!

Do good with what thou hast, or it will do thee no good.

Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money.

Philanthropy requires thought, action, and passion.

Philanthropy is fun and fulfilling.

I love my fellow creatures - I do all the good I can - yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man!

The imperative is to define what is right and do it.

I am convinced that music, like philanthropy, bridges hope.

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 in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.

Philanthropy without scale and sustainability is like any other bad business that will simply wither and die on the vine.

Philanthropy isn't just about big gifts; it's about participation. It is about the grace that comes from working together.

I would rather have it said, 'He lived usefully,' than, 'He died rich.'

Don't just think, do.

I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.

By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, and what to those we give, to Jove is lent.

My philanthropy is no relation to anybody else's. None. My philanthropy and what we do at the foundation speaks for itself and has no relation to anyone's.

My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it.

When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them.

Philanthropy, like charity, must begin at home.

What would the daughters of the rich do with themselves if the poor ceased to exist?

Without a love of humankind there is no love of God.

Philanthropy is no longer about writing a check for $10,000 to the opera.

Philanthropy should be voluntary.

Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.

Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.