Browsing Topic Best Philanthropy Quotes

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

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

No one has ever become poor by giving.

It isn’t where you came from, it’s where you’re going that counts.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

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

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

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

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

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

The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.

To have made even one person’s life a little better, that is to succeed.

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

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

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

A tiny portion of the population controls the lions share of the wealth and most of the command positions of state, manufacturing, banking, investment, publishing, higher education, philanthropy, and media… these individuals exercise a preponderant influence over what is passed off as public information and democratic discourse.

If you’re outraged at conditions, then you can’t possibly be free or happy until you devote all your time to changing them and do nothing but that. But you can’t change anything if you want to hold onto a good job, a good way of life and avoid sacrifice.

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it. Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace.

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

Contrary to Piketty’s rentier hypothesis, I don’t see anyone on the [Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans] whose ancestors bought a great parcel of land in 1780 and have been accumulating family wealth by collecting rents ever since. In America, that old money is long gone – through instability, inflation, taxes, philanthropy, and spending.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

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

Believe in something larger than yourself … to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.

Together, we must renew our continued commitment to serve and pledge to bring a positive change to our communities.

Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.

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.

Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity – the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.

Philanthropy should be voluntary.

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.

universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it.