Philanthropy Quotes - Page 3

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

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

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

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

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

I truly believe that philanthropy and commerce can work together.

Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.

Philanthropy, like charity, must begin at home.

Philanthropy should be voluntary.

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

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

Scatter plenty o'er a smiling land.

He scorn'd his own, who felt another's woe.

Whatever we give to the wretched, we lend to fortune.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Since fear is mostly about ignorance, the best part is that it's as temporary as you choose.

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

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

We cannot preserve philanthropic and charitable values if we detach them completely from our fundamental personal beliefs and convictions.

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.