Philanthropy Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

The sense of justice is continuous with the love of 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.

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

Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others.

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!

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

Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged.

I urge you to celebrate the extraordinary courage and contributions of refugees past and present.

A man should make all he can, and give all he can.

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

We believe that human rights transcend boundaries and must prevail over state sovereignty.

The best recreation is to do good.

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

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

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

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

True salvation can come only to a person who renders service to the community.

The results of philanthropy are always beyond calculation.

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

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