Quotes About Philanthropy

It's amazing what a little money can do when it's spent on the right reason.

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: 'What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.'

I was very spiritual as a kid. I think I felt and thought about things a lot more deeply than most of the other kids my age. I wanted to help people.

For me, health, education, and spirituality should never be commercialised.

I have spoken about wanting to do something for kids and dogs in my interviews.

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 outstanding doctor constantly emphasized the humanitarian aspect of medical care.

The rich man is not one who is in possession of much, but one who gives much.

There are eight levels of charity.... The highest is when you strengthen a man's hand until he need no longer be dependent upon others.

There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.

A poor but humble man who gives nothing to charity is preferrable to a rich but haughty man who does.

Amid life's quests, there seems but worthy one: to do men good.

The value of a man resides in what he gives

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

The rich man never really gives anything, he only distributes part of the surplus. It is the person of moderate means who really gives.

From its origin to the present hour, in all its vicissitudes, Masonry has been the steady unwearing friend of man.

Isn't it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?

Benevolence is one of the distinguishing characters of man.

If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility.

The guiding motive of mankind should be charity towards men, charity towards all animals.

It was a kind of eleemosynary institution

Americans are like that.' The other stared at him incredulously. 'It would cost a great deal of money to provide for a child, perhaps for years. One does not do that lightly for a foreign child of which one knows nothing.' 'It's just the sort of thing they do do,' said the old man. 'They would pour out their money in a cause like that.

Nothing consumes itself so much as generosity, because while you practise it you're losing the wherewithal to go on practising it.

There could be a powerful international women's rights movement if only philanthropists would donate as much to real women as to paintings and sculptures of women.