Quotes About Philanthropy

Wealth is a responsibility and the sharing of it a way of life.

If we're going to live an ethical life, it's not enough just to follow the thou-shalt-nots. … If we have enough, we have to share some of that with people who have so little.

Many things in life inspire philanthropy, such as your faith in humanity and your belief in the human spirit to overcome.

Philanthropy is an important subject of liberal education because it examines the role of good works in shaping our conceptions of the good society and the good life.

Selfless acts are a source of profound meaning for your self and your life.

Only those live who do good.

I have always been generous because I know that I have done well in life and I believe it is part of my duty to give back. So I am always been philanthropic.

Nothing is going to make you happier in your life than giving

Life gives to the give and takes from the taker.

How good would a Good Samaritan be, if a Good Samaritan would only intend to do good?

People are basically good.

In 1917, John D. Rockefeller could have paid off the whole US public debt on his own. Today, Bill Gates's entire fortune would barely cover two months' interest.

since it would always be a sin, in any man of estate, to let his brother perish for want of affording him relief out of his plenty.

The practice of education is the highest form of intellectual philanthropy.

El día en que la abundancia de capital interfiera con la de producción puede aplazarse en la medida en que los millonarios encuentren satisfacción en edificar poderosas mansiones para encerrarse en ellas mientras vivan y pirámides para albergarse después de muertos, o, arrepintiéndose de sus pecados levanten catedrales y funden monasterios o misiones en el extranjero.

All recipients of charity hate their Benefactors.

En cuestiones de arte, el trabajo original del yo tiene más importancia social que la filantropía.

All the joy the world contains Has come through wishing happiness for others. All the misery the world contains Has come through wanting pleasure for oneself. (8.129)

When happiness is liked by me and others equally, what is so special about me that I should strive after happiness only for myself?

Of great riches there is no real use, except it be in the distribution; the rest is but conceit.

There are so many different kinds of motivation for investing or giving or parting with your money in whatever other way, and plain old financial return is obviously attractive. But people are not always rational and are not just looking for that.

In business, the market gives you feedback in real time. Your sales figures tell you what's working, what isn't, and how you need to change. If you don't listen to the feedback, you go belly up. In philanthropy, there is no market.

There can be goodness without much intelligence - but it seems to me that perfect intelligence and perfect goodness must go together.

Google is a very responsible company. It's a generous company, but it's very frugal in many ways.