Quotes About Philanthropy

Misery has made more revolutions than either philanthropy or economics.

A generous person is anyone who freely gives out anything tangible or intangible even more than it's necessary or expected of him or her. Are you generous at all? If YES then, do keep the fire burning. But if NO then, you've got to have a rethink and afterwards dare to be generous and do remain generous. For, it really pays to be generous. You can take my words for it/that. -Emeasoba George

A rich person is not actually he or she who has made enough money for himself or herself only. Rather, a truly rich person is one who has made enough money for the betterment (improvement) of other people's lives. ~Emeasoba George

Anyone who works/lives just to make both ends meet emerges/ends up nothing else but only a money bag. But, anyone who works/lives towards satisfying other people's needs as much/long as he or she can is bound to end up a philantropist/a legend e.g. Mother Theresa, George Soros, Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie among others. Now, that infers, you shouldn't work/live just/only to make both ends meet.

Every true love ought to love all and sundry at full stretch i.e. whoever that claims to love genuinely should love everyone using the maximum amount of his or her resources or energy. Yes! that is it.

Have you learned anything positive from anyone or from anywhere? If Yes! then, dare to teach or educate the world right here and even beyond here. Moreover, if you've got anything worth sharing out. Then, go ahead and share it all with someone else or others right here or out there. Because, you've been taught and given in order to share it all with someone else or others and not at all to withhold it (mark you). -Emeasoba George

Listen up, it does not matter how much money you have or how much wealth you have acquired over the years. Yes! what really matters is how many people you have enriched already with your money and wealth. As a matter of fact, no one is going to remember you and celebrate you for just being rich and stingy. Note: you can only be remembered and celebrated perpetually for being rich and generous, (mark you). -Emeasoba George

Love is charity and charity is nothing else but life full of cheerful giving. ~Emeasoba George

No one has ever been recognised and celebrated for what he or she spent on himself or herself, but for what he or she spent on others i.e. what it takes to be recognised and celebrated globally is just one's expenditure on others and never on himself or herself. Anyway, do you long to be recognised and celebrated globally? If yes, then dare to share-out all your God-given riches, wealth, knowledge, words of wisdom, insights, inspirations, motivations and stuffs like that.

No one has ever been recognised and celebrated for what he or she spent on himself or herself, but for what he or she spent on others i.e. what it takes to be recognised and celebrated globally is just your expenditure on others and never on your own self. Anyway, do you long to be recognised and celebrated globally? If yes, then dare to share-out all your God-given riches, wealth, knowledge, words of wisdom, insights, inspirations, motivations and stuffs like that.

Note: You won't and can't be remembered or celebrated for your riches or wealth, no matter how rich you are presently. Yes! you heard me right, you will only be remembered or celebrated for enriching someone else or others with what you have or with what you know (mark you). ~Emeasoba George

The easiest way to achieve immortality or rather to make an indelible mark here (on earth) is just to live for others until one's demise. Yes! many mortals like you have already achieved or done that e.g. Mother Theresa, Andrew Carnegie, Martin Luther King Jnr., Henry Ford, William Shakespeare, Chinua Achebe, Zig Ziglar among others. -Emeasoba George

You can be charitable (generous) without being loveful (full of love). Yes! but dare to be charitable anyway. For, God almighty appreciates or rewards every act of charity. -Emeasoba George

You may be reluctant to share everything you have with someone else or others. But, you should be willing to share something with someone else or others out of everything you have.

You may not be able to give out all your resources/riches/fortune to the needy/helpless. But, you can give out some part of it/them just to advance the cause of the needy/helpless.

Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.

Philanthropic zeal supplies admirable motive power, but makes a very indifferent compass; and of two evils it is better, perhaps, that our ship shall go nowhere than that it shall go wrong, that it should stand still than that it should run upon the rocks.

Handing out free food and clothes was a charitable act. Approaching the powers was a political act.

The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.

To get, one must give. That is the Law.

I have always been involved in some philanthropic work - growing up in the church, you always had to have a reasonable portion of service to the community and to people who have less, who need a helping hand. It's just something in my heart that I know needs to be done.

Bill Gates has become the patron saint of philanthropy and the poster child of rebirth, and from what I can tell, rightly so.

We're going to rebuild Puerto Rico with money that we saved from the IRS in a Robin Hood fashion.

My grandmother always said, 'when you receive a paycheck, you always have to put a certain amount to your savings, and 10 percent right away to charity.'