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Quotes About Philanthropy

Our philosophy is you need to give nonprofit money for health, nutrition, education, culture, and sports.
~ Carlos Slim
Let's recreate the equivalent of the Met Ball in Europe and, rather than for the museum, give the money to environmental causes.
~ Jochen Zeitz
Charity is the form, mover, mother and root of all the virtues.
~ Thomas Aquinas
My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist.
~ Joely Richardson
Mother Teresa's numerical results were not her greatest contribution. Instead, she made the world-and especially India-conscious of compassion.
~ Peter Drucker
I have always looked for ways to give back because I think it's a responsibility we all share.
~ Avril Lavigne
Go out into the world and do good until there is too much good in the world.
~ Larry H. Miller
The man who dies rich, dies disgraced.
~ Andrew Carnegie
Kindness in giving creates love.
~ Laozi
Nothing teaches character better than generosity.
~ Jim Rohn
CharityIn charity lies happiness and bliss, If you haven't done charity, you may miss, The power to love and share, Charity gives you happiness beyond compare.
~ Ron Sen
What can a man do with music who is not benevolent?
~ Confucius, The Analects
I look at raising funds for The Perlman Music Program as a challenge and as a way to provide opportunities for people who care about the future of classical music.
~ Itzhak Perlman
To feel much for others and little for ourselves, that to restrain our selfish, and to indulge our benevolent affections, constitutes the perfection of human nature.
~ Adam Smith
A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature
~ George Orwell
Human nature is disposed to do good.
~ Mencius
My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can.
~ Mary Wortley Montagu
Self-giving means that we have to understand the nature of giving. When most people give, they give expecting a return on their investment.
~ Frederick Lenz
I want to do and I'm giving all the profits to charity, is to teach people to meditate. All it takes is a little bit of patience.
~ Russell Simmons
I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.
~ Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.
~ Alfred Nobel
We want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism.
~ Calvin Coolidge
All my actions have their rise in my inalienable love of mankind.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I like Kindness it's something the Government can't tax and it's free to give away that will return to you some day
~ Stanley Victor Paskavich