Philanthropy Quotations

The results of philanthropy are always beyond calculation.

Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining.

Seeing results flow from my gifts is my greatest pleasure as a philanthropist - whether exonerating a jailed innocent or completing a Frank Gehry building. I want to enjoy my philanthropy.

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

True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.

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

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.

I have failed a lot in my philanthropy, where I will make philanthropic contributions and they just won't be effective.

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.

When you've got the money, you spend it. When you've spent it all, let someone else get going and spend theirs.

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

I truly believe that philanthropy and commerce can work together.

In everything I do, whether in business, philanthropy or my personal life, I am guided by my inner truth, my values.

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

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

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

Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.

Politics is social work with power.

Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others

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

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.

Philanthropy is activism.

Kindness is always fashionable.

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

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!

I get great satisfaction from both business and philanthropy.

He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.

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

The future of marketing is philanthropy,

Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.

Philanthropy, like charity, must begin at home.

Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged.

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

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

Sometimes give your services for nothing.

I'll get involved in philanthropy.

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

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

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

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

Don't just think, do.

As a tither you automatically become solution-oriented rather than problem-oriented.

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

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

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

One of my goals is to reinvent philanthropy.

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

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

The world and life have been mighty good to me. And I want to put something back.

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

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

Scatter plenty o'er a smiling land.

If service is the rent you pay for your existence on this earth, are you behind in your rent?

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

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

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.

He who confers a benefit on anyone loves him better than he is beloved.

Much is expected from those to whom much is given.

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

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

Ideals are thoughts. So long as they exist merely as thoughts, the power in them remains ineffective.

Philanthropy is fun and fulfilling.

Philanthropy should be voluntary.

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

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

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 is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by 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.

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.

One must know not just how to accept a gift, but with what grace to share it.

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

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

If there is one word that describes our form of society in America, it may be the word-voluntary.

Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery.

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

The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.

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

The best recreation is to do good.