Best 144 quotes in «philanthropy quotes» category

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

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!

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

I truly believe that philanthropy and commerce can work together.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.

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

Politics is social work with power.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.