Quotes About Philanthropy

If your employees, including your CEO, wish to give to their alma maters or other institutions to which they feel a personal attachment, we believe they should use their own money, not yours.

The highest kindness is to give without condition.

being a giver rather than a taker, providing for others and asking nothing in return.

Nice and good are different. Being nice involves immediate actions and immediate consequences—you give water to the thirsty and comfort to the afflicted right here, right now. Being good involves living in the world so that you contribute to the welfare of your fellow human beings.

Four American traits were central to the evolution of that culture: industriousness, egalitarianism, religiosity, and an amalgam of philanthropy and volunteerism that was uniquely American.

Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace.

No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.

Justice without mercy is tyranny, and mercy without justice is weakness. Justice without love is pure socialism, and love without justice is baloney. JAIME CARDINAL SIN speaking at a Prison Fellowship International conference in Nairobi, Kenya, 1986

I admire a woman like T.R. "Tina" Threston. When nearly everyone else asks what a charity can do for them, she asks what she can do for a charity. That, my friends, is a rare woman indeed!

When I feed the poor, they call me a saint. But when I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me a communist.

An Islamic ethic for the wealthy is that they exude magnanimity, generosity, and the demeanor of lenience.

I tell young people -- including my granddaughter -- there is no short cut in life. You have to take it one step at a time and work hard. And you have to give back.

One writer may speak of something more lasting than Horace Greeley when he writes of that editor that his secular philanthropy drifted into autocratic ambition.

And, perhaps, among us may be found generous spirits, who do not estimate honour and justice by dollars and cents.

Now, John, I don't know anything about politics, but I can read my Bible; and there I see that I must feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and comfort the desolate; and that Bible I mean to follow.

suppose he were to donate a laboratory to Brandeis or even to Harvard? The

I've always thought the most effective method of distribution is to give your work away.

The manner of giving shows the character of the giver more than the gift itself. There is a princely manner of giving and accepting.

Jobs had been famously stingy when it came to charities, arguing that the most charitable thing he could do was increase Apple's value so that shareholders had more money to give away to the causes of their choice

Doing charity work is always cool. It's always a good thing.

Don't talk nonsense," Esmé said crossly. "If we give money to poor people, then they won't be poor anymore.

General benevolence, but not general friendship, make a man what he ought to be.

And there's another thing, Doug. Just as only we are capable of true evil," Jane said, "I think only we are capable of true altruism.

But celebrity really doesn't mean anything unless you use it for finding some way to give back and I've always felt that way.