Best Philanthropic Quotes

No one has ever become poor by giving.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

If you haven’t got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

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

He who has conferred a benefit on anyone from motives of love or honor will feel pain, if he sees that the benefit is received without gratitude.

The Americans make associations to give entertainment, to found seminaries, to build inns, to construct churches, to diffuse books, to send missionaries to the antipodes; in this manner, they found hospitals, prisons and schools.

If you can’t distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldn’t undertake philanthropic work.

In the U.S., philanthropic support from entrepreneurs is tightly integrated into the fabric of society, whether it’s health care, medical research, or education. Now, slowly, China will know this.

The Million Man March was held on a Monday. Most marches were always held on a weekend and most marches were paid for by philanthropic groups and organizations and labor unions, etc. So, the people who came did not necessarily have to make a great sacrifice to be there.

As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.

However absurd it may seem, I do in all seriousness hereby declare that I am animated mainly by philanthropic motives. I desire to do good to my fellow creatures, even to the Cui bonos.

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

Philanthropic leaders genially speak of complementing government, not competing with it as if monopoly were good and competition destructive-thus unwittingly conspiring against the public interest.

The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members

My own philanthropic efforts have always included an educational element, whether it’s expanding opportunities to educate a promising mind or extending the brain’s ability to learn.

Generosity is the flower of justice.

We must never forget what government is not. Government is not a philanthropic organization. Government is not the family. And government certainly is not the church.

We’re seeing that business models and philanthropic models are not mutually exclusive.

I’ve always respected those who tried to change the world for the better, rather than just complain about it.

I just focus on my work with inner-city kids, and in my community, and on my philanthropic work.

International friendly games are not worth the lives of the silk worms who perish to make the pennants. They do not even have the philanthropic excuse that softens the otherwise unendurable tedium of testimonial matches. Quite simply, they are rotten games staged to pick the public’s pocket, tiresome red tape left over from an era when nations and players were still insular and therefore curious about each other’s potential.

It is more difficult to give money away intelligently than to earn it in the first place.

Philanthropic humility is necessary if a giver is to do more good than harm, but it is not sufficient – philanthropic prudence is also needed.

If I am awarded a pardon for my philanthropic work, great; if not, I will continue to be involved in the community and to work just as hard, if not harder, to prevent kids from going down the same road and making the same mistakes.

The truth of the matter is: you can create a great legacy, and inspire others, by giving it to philanthropic organizations.

Social activism has gone mainstream. A new generation of philanthropic leaders such as Bill and Melinda Gates, and Bono are providing inspiration, guidance, and billions of dollars through their global foundations.

To make the peaks higher.[His reason to target philanthropic funding to only the best university science departments.]

Mankind — the race would perish did they cease to aid each other.

The continent is incredibly exciting. When I first went there, it consumed me, and I instantly felt like I wanted to be engaged one way or the other, whether on a philanthropic level or business. I’m lucky to say today that I do both. In terms of African Wildlife Foundation, I started working with them roughly around 2009, on the ambassador level. Then I joined the board and was exposed to deeper issues that the Foundation was combating on the continent.

Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed.

Scatter plenty o’er a smiling land.

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

The United States is at a critical juncture in time. Our government is riddled with historic debt, and the limited resources of philanthropic and non-profit efforts cannot meet the scale of social challenges we face with necessary force.

In my new book, ‘Birth,’ my goal is to share the path I have traveled in the spiritual sphere and in the business and philanthropic sphere in order to reveal the essential connection between the two.