Best 144 quotes in «philanthropy quotes» category

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

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

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!

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

Charity begins at home.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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 truly believe that philanthropy and commerce can work together.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.

Politics is social work with power.

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

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

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

The best recreation is to do good.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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