Best 144 quotes in «philanthropy quotes» category

One of the things that I encourage for anybody who is interested in their own charity or philanthropy is to start from where you are and what has mattered to you.

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

Philanthropy, charity, giving voluntarily and freely... call it what you like, but it is truly a jewel of an American tradition.

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

Philanthropist, n.: A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.

Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.

Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.

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

Philanthropy is the principal social institution that provides instruction in voluntary service.

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

Since fear is mostly about ignorance, the best part is that it's as temporary as you choose.

... still his philanthropy was of that gunpowderous sort that the difference between it and animosity was hard to determine.

Politics is social work with power.

That, however, is - mediocrity, though it be called moderation.

Some show their kindness to the poor by employing them in their kitchens. Would they not be kinder if they employed themselves there?

The best recreation is to do good.

The best philanthropy is constantly in search of the finalities-a search for a cause, an attempt to cure evils at their source.

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

The good-they cannot create; they are always the beginning of the end.

The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.

The most generous part of your philanthropy could be the time you put in to procure the same results and same outcomes and same returns you demand in business.

The results of philanthropy are always beyond calculation.

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

The religious instinct will never be replaced by law or even philanthropy.

There is in Aristotle an almost complete absence of what may be called benevolence or philanthropy. The sufferings of mankind . . . there is no evidence that they cause him unhappiness except when the sufferers happen to be his friends.

To steale the Hog, and give the feet for almes. [To steal the hog, and give the feet to alms.]

We cannot preserve philanthropic and charitable values if we detach them completely from our fundamental personal beliefs and convictions.

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

We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.

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

A hand gets way cleaner from washing, not itself, but the other hand.

Women who are devoted to causes, such as overpopulation and the underprivileged [sic], are much less interested in fashion than, let's say, those who lunch at La Grenouille and Le Cirque.

A humanitarian seldom makes a good lover. For a lover’s world revolves around their lover, while a humanitarian’s world revolves around the world.

When we see a special reformer we feel like asking him, What right have you, sir, to your own virtue? Is virtue piecemeal?

Accomplish of the religious dues executes the worship, not the philanthropy; Since the philanthropy has no eyes of distinctions A philanthropist breathes, beyond the caste, creed, and colour The practical role becomes its language And it waves the interpretation of humanity.

Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken by as commonly assumed, that we may be adequately represented by money. The giving of money has thus become our characteristic virtue. But to give is not to do. The money is given in lieu of action, thought, care, time. And it is no remedy for the fragmentation of character and consciousness that is the consequence of specialization. At the simplest, most practical level, it would be difficult for most of us to give enough in donations to good causes to compensate for, much less remedy, the damage done by the money that is taken from us and used destructively by various agencies of the government and by the corporations that hold us in captive dependence on their products. Most important, even if we could give enough to overbalance the official and corporate misuse of our money, we would still not solve the problem: the willingness to be represented by money involves a submission to the modern divisions of character and community. The remedy safeguards the disease.

All that work: his generous patronage of the arts, the vast sums of money he had donated to worthy causes, setting up charitable organizations . . . for what? In the end, none of those good works had redeemed him in the eyes of others. People think that men like me give money away to buy forgiveness for a sin or out of vanity, when it's the winner's pathetic tribute to the loser. Look at me, we seem to be begging, I need you too. I need you to accept me, to admire me, to love me.

An analogy of a psychological masterpiece, piecing together the puzzle becoming mind master of theology. What matters the creed? We all came from the One True Living Deity, a billions upon billions of seeds sown from his likeness & imagery. Instead of philanthropy, brothers of brothers and sisters hate each other; the envy, lust and greed. Oppressional slavery against our fellow posterity.

A lover of men is very nearly the opposite of a philanthropist; indeed the pedantry of the Greek word carries something like a satire on itself. A philanthropist may be said to love anthropoids. But as St. Francis did not love humanity but men, so he did not love Christianity but Christ.

As you give, your hand stretches. As you take, your hand shortens.

Be the sun in someone’s dark sky.

A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.

But the stream of London, charity flows in a channel which, though deep and mighty, is yet noiseless and underground; not obvious or readily accessible to poor houseless wanderers: and it cannot be denied that the outside air and frame-work of London society is harsh, cruel, and repulsive.

Charity begins on the street when you are homeless.

Do as love says; do as love does.

Every act of goodness is born from our desire to be happy.

A sharing person with limited resources and a heart of gold is worth more than a selfish billionaire who is only concerned with his own personal profit.

God cannot be everywhere; that's why he had created Philanthropists(Volunteers and Donors).

Everyone wants to help the world, but first and foremost everyone wants to help oneself.

frustration has flared up over the Common Core initiative, involving the implementation of national reading and maths standards for primary and secondary school children. The Gates Foundation played a central role in bringing the standards to fruition. Spending over $233 million to back the standards, the foundation dispersed money liberally to both conservative and progressive interest groups. The two major teachers' unions, the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers, each received large donations, as did the US Chamber of Commerce. Gates himself suggested that a benefit of the standards is that they open avenues towards increasing digital learning. In 2014, Microsoft announced it was partnering with Pearson to load Pearson's Common Core classroom material onto Microsoft's Surface tablet. Previously, the iPad was the classroom frontrunner; the Pearson partnership helps to make Microsoft more competitive.