Quotes About Philanthropy

the only thing that can lead us to noble thoughts and deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and irresistibly invites abuse. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus, or Gandhi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie?

That which we do for ourselves dies with us … that which we do for others lives forever.

It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel.

The best things to do with the best things in life is to give them away.

You choose to play God, and the Deity points out that the post is already adequately filled. During an outburst of besotted philanthropy he had redeemed Lymond, but Lymond quite simply was not prepared to be rescued; and least of all by his brother.

Sluts share their sexuality the way philanthropists share their money: because they have a lot of it to share, because it makes them happy to share it, because sharing makes the world a better place. Sluts often find that the more love and sex they give away, the more they have: a loaves-and-fishes miracle in which greed and generosity go hand in hand to provide more for everybody.

This Fyfe kept a very low profile. He must have been worth tens of millions, minimum, but there was very little about him online—Altschuler had checked. Occasionally he was written up for donating to this charity or that, but he managed to keep his business interests strictly out of the public eye.

The only real answer, the really simple one that neither philanthrocapitalists nor green technologists want to hear, is that we have to reduce our energy consumption altogether.

He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing, but a supply of toothpicks.

God blesses giving, so every use of language, down to the lowliest tweet, ought to be thought of as a gift to others.

The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation.

I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life.

We can send people to the Moon; we can see if there's life on Mars - why can't we get $5 [mosquito] nets to 500 million people?

Generosity, generosity, generosity, must be the beginning and ending of our life

My father used to say, 'You can spend a lot of time making money. The tough time comes when you have to give it away properly.' How to give something back, that's the tough part in life.

A person may rightfully be happy if in this life he could do a great favor for widows and orphans, could assist support than, and facilitate fate of people.

As my dad said, you have an obligation to leave the world better than how you found it. And he also reminded us to be givers in this life, and not takers.

Children, we should simplify our life's needs and use the resulting savings for charity.

I've been a philanthropist for all my life, and... I've had many involvements in humanitarian and environmental issues.

He who seeks possessions for himself will never find them-until he begins to give of the abundance of possessions which he already has.

Those who have prospered and profited from life's lottery have a moral obligation to share their good fortune.

I think that if you start teaching about giving back and helping other people young, that will be a given for your child their whole life.

Every person who dedicates his or her life to something that belongs to the greater good is very meaningful.

Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity.