Quotes About Philanthropy

Unfortunately, governments do not have a philanthropic approach towards future governments.

When we spend money we lose them forever, when we give them away, we will have them forever.

Generosity is the flower of our love for the humanity.

More often than not, how you give is more important than what you give.

Generosity creates the higher life. There is no nobler virtue than the care one person shows to another.

There's nothing wrong with helping someone without a cost. Especially if there's no end return.

The upright are richer in deeds than the wealthy are in gold.

Reading and writing are not education if they do not help people to be kind to all creatures

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

Now I want to use money in a good way. I make foundations back home in Russia, I have sponsored vaccinations for more than one million children in my homeland and I have founded scholarships in the names of my great Russian compatriots - Oistrakh, Richter, Gilels, Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Schnittke.

I was sponsored to go to the U.S. and became a Black Eyed Peas, and now I'm paying it forward and helping other children like me.

The founder of the Mona Foundation actually knew my dad for years, and the more I learned about it, the more I realized I really found the perfect charity. It sponsors schools and educational initiatives all over the planet.

I have a soft spot for charities that help children.

I want to spread the message in the U.S. that there are good philanthropists in China, and not all are crazy spenders on luxury goods.

I just feel like I have when I started making a lot of money, I started spreading it out to people. Mickelson, the whole deal, the over-tip: if I see a guy that looks like he needs a hand out or something, I'll pull something out and give him something.

But charity is a very complicated thing. It's important to find an area where you can really help and you can feel the results. Charity is not like feeding pigeons in the square. It is a process that requires professional management.

The spirit of St. Louis as I view it from my lens is a spirit of giving.

By making a company successful, you can provide more employment, and, if you treat your staff well, then your business itself becomes a charity.

I only ever met Ronaldinho once, at a charity event in Rio. Once every year, he stages a game and invites different players and personalities to play and raise money for his charity.

Shouldn't you put the same amount of effort into your giving as you might for your for-profit investments? After all, philanthropy is an investment, and one in which lives - not profits - are at stake.

When you look at some of the greatest people and players in the world they all stand for something outside their working lives.

The charity that I work for is the Johnson Cancer Research Foundation at UCLA. I also do work with Stand Up To Cancer.

Britain is a nation proud to stand up for what is right and is generous in helping those in need.

Of all the awards given to NFL athletes, the Walter Payton Man of the Year is the one that stands out above the rest to me because of what it represents.