Quotes About Philanthropy

el mundo entiende tan poco de entusiasmo como un financiero de caridad.

Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all

There is nothing that robs a righteous cause of its strength more than a millionaire's money.

The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.

Success shouldn't be measured by how much you have but by how much you give back.

We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.

If you get into business solely to make money, you won't. If you try to make a real difference, you'll find success.

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.

What good is success if you're not willing to share it?

It is not in everyone's power to secure wealth, office, or honors; but everyone may be good, generous, and wise.

Most people think of success in terms of getting; success, however, begins in terms of giving.

The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.

Philanthropy should be voluntary.

Successful charitable fund-raising has much in common with managing a business: It requires leadership, persistence, and creativity.

The key to success is radical generosity.

I've achieved a certain amount of success and now I'm thinking about the good things I can do.

Well, so much the better for him,' said the inspector. 'When he is altogether mad, he will suffer less.' As you can see, this inspector was a man of the utmost humanity and altogether worthy of the philanthropic office with which he had been entrusted.

Notre déjeuner est un déjeuner philanthropique, et nous aurons à notre table, je l'espère du moins, deux bienfaiteurs de l'humanité. – Comment ferons-nous ? dit Debray, nous n'avons qu'un prix Montyon ? – Eh bien, mais on le donnera à quelqu'un qui n'aura rien fait pour l'avoir, dit Beauchamp. C'est de cette façon-là que d'ordinaire l'Académie se tire d'embarras.

that disinterestedness was the finest thing in the world.

Reste donc la charité particulière; celle là ne saurait produire que des effets utiles. Sa faiblesse même garantit contre ses dangers; elle soulage beaucoup de misères et n'en fait point naître.

Swedenborg, the Christian mystic, and the sentiment of charity as divine spoke deeply to him. He felt swept up in something far bigger than himself.

Philanthropist. A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket...

PHILANTHROPIST, n. A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.

his brother used to tell him it was what you gave out that made a man, not what you got back.