Quotes About Philanthropy

If a man has no vices, he's in great danger of making vices out of his virtues, and there's a spectacle. We've all seen them: men who were monsters of philanthropy and women who were dragons of purity. ... No, no - nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring up modesly around it.

Benefiting other sentient beings doesn't mean causing them only temporary physical and mental happiness in this life.

Without fanfare or ceremony, Laura Mae Corrigan began funneling all her money—an average of two thousand dollars a month—into her charity for wounded French soldiers. She would earn among those veterans the title of the "American Angel.

I didn't want my epitaph to read 'Here lies John Caudwell, billionaire.' I knew that wasn't enough. I've had a charitable instinct all my life, but working gave me no time for it.

We have always been a family that's given back. We just don't make a lot of noise about it.

The billionaire who sits on his money and doesn't do anything for the common good - I'm not interested in that person.

My objective was never to make money. I wanted to contribute to human knowledge and betterment.

People can just put their cash away and continue to make money and never give back because they just do not care, but I immediately felt obligated to use my influence for good things.

Having got the best of education myself, I firmly believe it is my personal obligation to give back to the community.

As you have more resources in life, it's your obligation to deploy those for the benefit of others.

I come from a background where we have been taught to give back to the society, as it is an obligation for all of us.

If you have the good fortune of having money, it's almost an obligation to think creatively of ways of helping other people. But it shouldn't be in a haphazard way. You need a structure, a formula, so you don't give to everything.

It is only the generous giver who gets much.

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

What can a man do with music who is not benevolent?

He who wishes to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.

Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, when I give I give myself.

When I give, I give myself

As long as there is still one beggar around, there will still be myth.

Use for yourself little," he said, "but give to others much."26

Despite the pecuniary spirit of Poor Richard's sayings and the penny-saving reputation they later earned Franklin, he did not have the soul of an acquisitive capitalist. "I would rather have it said," he wrote his mother, 'He lived usefully,' than, 'He died rich.' 

I designed the Apple I because I wanted to give it away for free to other people," said Wozniak.

regard for reason and nature, its social consciousness, its progressivism, its tolerance, its cosmopolitanism, and its bland philanthropy." He

Money is Like Cow Poop, it Does No Good Unless You Spread It Around