Quotes About Philanthropy

With "We Are The World," I can't even eat when I watch that on television. If I'm eatin' some food, I have to put it down. I feel very strongly about that.

I donate heavily to the church and various churches in the Detroit community and food banks.

That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.

Giving is a great teacher of love, self-worth, kindness and selflessness.

Return something not for the possibility of a reward, but for the joy of giving a gift which you did not have to pay for.

?i-am l?sat vorb? în amintirea mea, m?car la soroace mai mari, universul întreg s? fie dat lumii de poman?.

Generosity is the only legitimate selfishness.

Don't wait until you make your first million to make a difference in somebody's life. If you have something to give, give it now.

All my actions have their source in my inalienable love of humankind.

It made Daniel think. The people who had the least were the most willing to share. He outlined a dictum that he would believe the rest of his life: the more people have, the less the give. Similarly, generous cultures produce less waste because excess is shared, whereas stingy nations fill their landfills with leftovers.

They take the paper and they read the headlines. So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of bread-lines. And they philanthropically cure them all by getting up a costume charity ball.

But I also happen to be someone who believes in tithing--the giving of a tenth .

I want to go to Egypt and Japan and open orphanages... a chain of them.

As soon as we find a cure, we will utilize any of the donations to go toward providing medication to those who can't afford it. That is my goal.

My goal was to go back to Argentina, and give them all-all the shoes-away. Not just to give them away, but to place them on each child's foot.

Probably the most dangerous and powerful industrialist of our age. [About Bill Gates]

The age looks steadily to the redressing of wrong, to the righting of every form of error and injustice; and a tireless and prying philanthropy, which is almost omniscient, is one of the most hopeful characteristics of the time.

The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship.

Personally , I'd rather be remembered for what I've done for the world , and not for how sexy I looked in a dress. The greatest people that ever lived are found in history books , and their remembered for what they've done for the world and not for how they looked. Always remember that you have more to offer the world than just your looks.

Get beyond love and grief; exist for the good of man

My goal was never to just create a company. A lot of people misinterpret that, as if I don't care about revenue or profit or any of those things. But what not being just a company means to me is not being just that - building something that actually makes a really big change in the world.

Today, all patients accepted for treatment at St. Jude's are treated without regard for the family's ability to pay. Everything beyond what is covered by insurance is taken care of, and for those without insurance, all of the medical costs are absorbed by the hospital.

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice that produces beggars needs restructuring.

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, "What are you doing for others?"