51 Quotes About Philanthropy

Philanthropy is the giving of money, time, or property for the public good, and is a central part of many people's lives. Whether you're looking for a quote about giving back to your community or simply want to give back to those who deserve it, these philanthropy quotes will help you make a difference.

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When you have power and use it for destructive purpose: you don't deserve it. Udai Yadla
Success is not a finite resource; share it, wish it...
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Success is not a finite resource; share it, wish it on others, and celebrate others Savania China
We can show love, respect for others, and honesty in...
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We can show love, respect for others, and honesty in whatever we do to help humanity. AuliqIce
A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion...
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A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Frustration has flared up over the Common Core initiative, involving the implementation of national reading and maths standards for primary and secondary school children. The Gates Foundation played a central role in bringing the standards to fruition. Spending over $233 million to back the standards, the foundation dispersed money liberally to both conservative and progressive interest groups. The two major teachers' unions, the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers, each received large donations, as did the US Chamber of Commerce. Gates himself suggested that a benefit of the standards is that they open avenues towards increasing digital learning. In 2014, Microsoft announced it was partnering with Pearson to load Pearson's Common Core classroom material onto Microsoft's Surface tablet. Previously, the i Pad was the classroom frontrunner; the Pearson partnership helps to make Microsoft more competitive. . Linsey McGoey
I’ve never been motivated by money — it doesn’t drive...
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I’ve never been motivated by money — it doesn’t drive Me. Germany Kent
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Conservatives, who have presumed that the key to preventing AIDS is abstinence-only education, and liberals, who have focused on distribution of condoms, should both note that the intervention that has tested most cost-effective in Africa is neither... Secular bleeding hearts and religious bleeding hearts will have to forge a common cause. Nicholas D. Kristof
Caring for others is the best way to fulfil our...
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Caring for others is the best way to fulfil our own interests. AuliqIce
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What is life? Life is living in this moment, experiencing and experimenting but experience isn’t life. Life is reflecting and meditating but reflection isn’t life. Life is helping and guiding but philanthropy isn’t life. Life is eating and drinking but food isn’t life. Life is reading and dancing but art isn’t life. Life is kissing and pleasuring but sex isn’t life. Life is winning and losing but competition isn’t life. Life is loving and caring but love isn’t life. Life is birthing and nurturing but children aren’t life. Life is letting go and surrendering but death isn’t life. Life is all these things but all these things aren’t life. Life is always more. Kamand Kojouri
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Giving Back reframes portraits of philanthropy. Valaida Fullwood
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To really be of help to others we need to be guided by compassion. AuliqIce
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I don’t wish to be successful but I definitely wish to be successful in helping someone, sometime for something good. Manasa Rao
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I think it's important that we give back to society and our fellow man regardless of our professions. We all need help at times. And when we support each other, we're all a little stronger. Rhonda Hopkins
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[I]f you don't feel or look rich, you don't necessarily feel the same sense of obligation that a traditional rich person does or should: Noblesse oblige is, after all, dependent on a classical idea of who is and is not the nobility. As that starts to fall away, obligation--to culture, to the future, to each other--begins to disappear too. Ellen Cushing
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All agree that, the first responsibility for the alleviation of poverty and distress and for the care of the victims of the depression rests upon the locality – its individuals, organizations and Government. It rests, first of all, perhaps, upon the private agencies of philanthropy, secondly, other social organizations, and last, but not least, the Church. Yet all agree that to leave to the locality the entire responsibility would result in placing the heaviest burden in most cases upon those who are the least able to bear it. In other words, the communities that have the most difficult problem, like Detroit, would be the communities that would have to bear the heaviest of the burdens. And so the State should step in to equalize the burden by providing for a large portion of the care of the victims of poverty and by providing assistance and guidance for local communities. Above and beyond that duty of the States the national Government has a responsibility. Franklin D. Roosevelt
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He was a simple honest man. He never strayed, He never drank, he never smoked, and he never kissed a maid. And when he passed away his insurance was denied, Because he never lived, they claimed he never died. Ted Gup
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The man who dies rich dies disgraced leaving the earth without making it better than he met it. Give to humanity. Adedayo Olabamiji
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Love is divine ink: miracles are God's signature. Matshona Dhiliwayo
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Love pouring out of you is evidence of God pouring into you. Matshona Dhliwayo
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We can all make a difference in the lives of others in need, because it is the most simple of gestures that make the most significant of differences. Miya Yamanouchi
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His words even imply that philanthropy has deeper depths than is generally realized. The great emotions of compassion and mercy are traced to Him; there is more to human deeds than the doers are aware. He identified every act of kindness as an expression of sympathy with Himself. All kindnesses are either done explicitly or implicitly in His name, or they are refused explicitly or implicitly in His name. . Fulton J. Sheen
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To us children he (Mr Ewing) was our very own ‘Mr Chips’ and invariably we would each receive half a crown whenever we encountered him on his afternoon walk. If we were particularly lucky, he would send us to the ‘Big House’ for ice-cream — a rare treat in the early 1950s Unknown
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The sparkle and morning-freshness of the shop, and the butter-conjuring girl, formed a mind-picture which accompanied the whole of my youth.(about the Buttercup Dairy) Muriel Spark
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Rather than being a human, be a humanitarian Kowtham Kumar K
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That day, I learned that I could be a giver by simply bringing a smile to another person. The ensuing years have taught me that a kind word, a vote of support is a charitable gift. I can move over and make another place for someone. I can turn my music up if it pleases, or down if it is annoying. I may never be known as a philanthropist, but I certainly am a lover of mankind, and I will give freely of my resources. Maya Angelou
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Wealth without virtue is no harmless neighbor. Sappho
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You are only given one life, one chance at fully living it...take risks, believe in your dreams, explore the world and her people, live out loud! Danell Lynn
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What's the best way to make sure that the poor have a share in a country's growing wealth: Regulation? Taxes? Philanthropy? Linsey McGoey
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It takes money to make money, even begging. Humans are herd animals. If a stranger’s bleeding to death beside the road, most people won’t stop to offer a Band-Aid. But get the ball rolling with a couple Good Samaritans, and before you know it you’ve got more eager philanthropists than you know what to do with. Sol Luckman
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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. Wendell Berry
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Sometimes the universe works in a really weird way. You hate the people who love you, and you love the people who just aren't really that into you. And then there are those who love you as you love them, but fate just decides that you're not meant to be. Altruistic
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Paul Chehade is dedicated to serves the unfortunate, regardless of a person's religion, race, ethnicity, or gender, as a demonstration of God's unconditional love for all people, helping communities worldwide. Ethical junction making choices easy. Paul Chehade
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True humanity demands that every human should be loved equally, but if that's not possible for you then at least love whoever you wants to but respect everyone. Amit Kalantri
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Private philanthropy is no substitution for hard-fought battles over labour laws and social security, in part because philanthropy can be retracted on a whim, while elected officials, at least in theory, have citizens to answer to. Linsey McGoey
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The sense of justice is continuous with the love of mankind. John Rawls
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You don't have to be a billionaire to believe you can make a difference. Give your resources to a charity and volunteer in your community. Germany Kent
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There is one kind of charity common enough among us… It is that patchwork philanthropy which clothes the ragged, feeds the poor, and heals the sick. I am far from decrying the noble spirit which seeks to help a poor or suffering fellow being… [However] what advances a nation or a community is not so much to prop up its weakest and most helpless members, but to lift up the best and the most gifted, so as to make them of the greatest service to the country. Jamsetji Tata
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What you give today you get tomorrow. Matshona Dhliwayo
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A humanitarian seldom makes a good lover. For a lover’s world revolves around their lover, while a humanitarian’s world revolves around the world. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Chasing angels or fleeing demons, go to the mountains. Jeffrey Rasley
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The ideological blackmail that has been in place since the original Live Aid concerts in 1985 has insisted that ‘caring individuals’ could end famine directly, without the need for any kind of political solution or systemic reorganization. It is necessary to act straight away, we were told; politics has to be suspended in the name of ethical immediacy. Bono’s Product Red brand wanted to dispense even with the philanthropic intermediary. ‘Philanthropy is like hippy music, holding hands’, Bono proclaimed. ‘Red is more like punk rock, hip hop, this should feel like hard commerce’. The point was not to offer an alternative to capitalism - on the contrary, Product Red’s ‘punk rock’ or ‘hip hop’ character consisted in its ‘realistic’ acceptance that capitalism is the only game in town. No, the aim was only to ensure that some of the proceeds of particular transactions went to good causes. The fantasy being that western consumerism, far from being intrinsically implicated in systemic global inequalities, could itself solve them. All we have to do is buy the right products. Mark Fisher
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It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more money. And advertisement is the rich asking for more money. G.k. Chesterton
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Save the World-ers Kajsa Li Paludan
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Philanthropists should find innovations that release the energies of people. Individuals don't want to be taken care of --they need to be given a chance to fulfill their own potential. (142) Jacqueline Novogratz
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There's a new kind of Giving-I remember when Philanthropy was inconspicuous and anonymous. Now it has turned in to " Look at me, I just saved the world" kind of show. Charmaine J. Forde
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The story of Andrew Ewing is partly one of rags to riches — but there is more to it than that, since his business success was combined with a generosity of spirit that led him to give away a fortune in pursuit of his ultimate ambition to die a poor man. Unknown
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Fundraising is an extreme sport! Marc A. Pitman
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Through their donations and work for voluntary organizations, the charitable rich exert enormous influence in society. As philanthropists, they acquire status within and outside of their class. Although private wealth is the basis of the hegemony of this group, philanthropy is essential to the maintenance and perpetuation of the upper class in the United States. In this sense, nonprofit activities are the nexus of a modern power elite. . Teresa Odendahl
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The best opportunity for our uplifting is the opportunity to give. AuliqIce
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My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale. David Rockefeller