Quotes About Philanthropy

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

Compassion can be defined, therefore, as an attitude of principled, consistent altruism. The

Man is born for deeds of kindness.

Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men. [Lat., Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt, quam salutem hominibus dando.]

Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.

I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.

All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.

If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?

The high-minded man is fond of conferring benefits, but it shames him to receive them.

The booksellers are generous liberal-minded men.

For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.

It is a capital blunder; as you discover, when another man recites his charities.

A rich man can afford to be generous to many.

Man should be judged by the deeds done to help his fellow man.

The part of the philanthropist is indeed a dangerous one; and the man who would do his neighbour good must first study how not to do him evil, and must begin by pulling the beam out of his own eye.

...it is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man if he will make a business of it.

It is absurd to suppose, if this is God's world, that men must always be selfish barbarians.

Defer not charities till death; for certainly, if a man weigh it rightly, he that doth so is rather liberal of another man's than of his own.

When a man has just been greatly honored and has eaten a little he is the most generous.

Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them.

He that distributeth not That which he hath received-- His food, his drink, his sustenance-- Unto devotee, brahman, beggar, wayfarer-- Such a low man as he, they say, is like Unto a lack of rain.

A lot of people measure a man by what he's got. I've decided to measure myself by what I can give up.

The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence. [The miserable man maketh a penny of a farthing, and the liberal of a farthing sixpence.]

In the world as I have seen it, no man grows rich by kindness.