Best 144 quotes in «philanthropy quotes» category

He scorn'd his own, who felt another's woe.

In business, we say that people overestimate what you can do in a year and underestimate what you can do in a decade. This is true in philanthropy as well.

Humanity, in the aggregate, is progressing, and philanthropy looks forward hopefully.

In business, the market gives you feedback in real time. Your sales figures tell you what's working, what isn't, and how you need to change. If you don't listen to the feedback, you go belly up. In philanthropy, there is no market.

I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.

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

I regard philanthropy as a tragic apology for wrong conditions under which human beings live.

I truly believe that philanthropy and commerce can work together.

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.

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

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

Long ago I lost the joy in living. The only joy I have is in my giving.

I've always said that the better off you are, the more responsibility you have for helping others

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

It never was our guise to slight the poor, or aught humane despise.

Love ever your neighbour as yourselves - but first be such as love themselves.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Politics is social work with power.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.

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

The results of philanthropy are always beyond calculation.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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