Quotes About Philanthropy

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?

Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?

Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.

Compassion is the basis of all morality

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Charity must be voluntary.

Find time for charitable works.

Play a bigger part in doing more good in the world, it is good for you and for business.

It is not how much you have that matters. But how much you share that is the most important.

Charity is fortune, avarice is poverty, peace is treasure, and happiness is wealth.

Helping yourself is common sense, helping others is virtue, helping yourself and others is enlightenment.

Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, when I give I give myself.

Love is the wish to give, not to receive.

It is not genius, nor glory, nor love that reflects the greatness of the human soul; it is kindness.

In art there is compassion, in compassion there is humanity, with humanity there is generosity and love,' Peters said.

Beneficence is a duty; and he who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized comes, at length, really to love him to whom he has done good.

Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead.

To give and not expect anything in return, that is what lies at the heart of love.

Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, "I did not give it to the man, but to humanity."

I realized with mild disappointment that charity could mean something quite different here: that it was not enough to give, you had to be seen to be giving. Hospitals bore the names of their donors in six-foot-high letters above the door. Balls were named after those who funded them. Even buses bore lists of names alongside their rear windows. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Gopnik were known as generous benefactors because they were visible in society as being so.

I realized with mild disappointment that charity could mean something quite different here: that it was not enough to give, you had to be seen to be giving.

All that is required to be a philanthropist is a passion for making a difference.

As a boy, Jimmy sent a nickel every week to Baptist missionaries building hospitals and schools in China.

No one can live happily who has regard to himself alone and transforms everything into a question of his own utility; you must live for your neighbour, if you would live for yourself. —SENECA