Quotes About Philanthropy

Si la maldad y la vanidad usan el abrigo de la filantropía, ¿debería yo callar?

You can't take it with you— but you can send it on ahead.

Morality can build pride as well as philanthropy; true spirituality will never submit to pride.

Kill two birds with one stone, feed the homeless to the hungry.

SIX SKILLFUL ACTIONS Generosity heads almost every list of actions for the good. For many people it is the easiest one to appreciate and develop because it brings such immediate delight to our lives. Generosity enacts the quality of nongreed; it is a willingness to give, to share, to let go. It may be the giving of time, energy, resources, love, and even, in rare cases, one's own life for the benefit and welfare of others.

I want the best of everything for everybody, and it will cost millions.

While you have a thing it can be taken from you…..but when you give it, you have given it. no robber can take it from you. It is yours then forever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.

Most of us concentrate on what we can get in life, but we need to concentrate on what we can give.

Miss Manners fails to understand why philanthropists would turn from the needy to the greedy, but she is not in the business of laundering rudeness to make it seem acceptable.

Charity and personal force are the only investments worth anything.

The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.

Do-gooders fail to realize that most good is not done in the name of good but done in the name of self-interest.

So when we look at any sacrificial action, any surrender of wealth we must first acknowledge that it is in fact wealth.

What does the world need most . . . that we are uniquely able to provide? Shaich says he wrestled with that question for a while, then worked his way to an answer with the launch of Panera Cares—an initiative to open a number of pay-what-you-can cafés that are identical to the chain's other restaurants, except customers pay what they wish or can afford (based on suggested donation amounts).

If you're in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.

Indeed, the art of democratic writing demands of its practitioners the aspiration to write to any and all, for any and all. It is a philanthropic art: it requires affection for humanity.

Sometimes you have to look at the greater good, no matter what the consequences to yourself might be.

When a poor man gives something, that is a sacrifice indeed. When a rich man gives something, it hardly rises to the same level.

Private charity can apply 'tough love' but government charity can't.

It appeared that these private schools, while operating as businesses, also provided philanthropy to their communities. The owners were explicit about this. They were businesspeople, true, but they also wanted to be viewed as "social workers," giving something back to their communities. They wanted to be respected as well as successful.

As governor general of the Philippines, Taft had welcomed every political group at Malacañan Palace, making it "a rule never to pay any attention to personal squabbles and differences.

The majority of the great fortunes were "won not by doing evil, but as an incident to action which has benefited the community as a whole.

Charitable, ah! said Dirk. I pay my taxes, what more do you want?

Collecting and hoarding seem to be about the loss of others, while philanthropy and de-accessioning are more about the impending loss of self. (Whoever dies with the most toys actually loses.)