Quotes About Philanthropy

The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others lives unblest!

My No. 1 focus was on my foundation, the Tim Tebow Foundation, to bring faith, hope and love to those needing a brighter day in the darkest hour of need.

Love is that which exists to do good, not merely to get good.

Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.

Charity isn't about pity, it is about love.

Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity.

YOU know, I may have to be born again, you see, I have fallen in love with mankind.

Charity is love; not all love is charity.

Charity itself fulfills the law. And who can sever love from charity?

If you're an enthusiast and you love the world like I do, it comes naturally. But I think charity must become more fun to give, more interactive and imaginative.

We help other people because we can, or because it makes us feel good, not because we're counting on some future payback. There is a word for this; love.

A disciple having asked for a definition of charity, the Master said LOVE ONE ANOTHER.

What shall I do when greed consumes me? Remember that it is truly better to give than to receive.

Pecan, tal vez, los que piensan en sí y viven para los demás: los abnegados y los altruistas, los que sacrifican sus goces y fuerzas en beneficio ajeno, renunciando a sus comodidades y aun a su vida, como suele ocurrir?

Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.

Happiness does not consist in self-love.

It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.

Qué haríamos con dos millones (si los tuviéramos)», explica la diferencia entre los filántropos y los cristianos: «Los filántropos se los darían a los pobres que se lo merecieran, y los cristianos, a los pobres que no lo merecieran; porque si los cristianos fueran verdaderos cristianos, lo primero que pensarían es que ellos mismos constituían un ejemplo de ricos que no merecían serlo»

You really think it's that simple?" I said. "That you can just write a check for two hundred and forty billion dollars and fix all the world's problems?

Though it sometimes looks like a rich man will never help the poor; whereas the poor people will give away everything they has to help somebody who ain't got nothing. That's how it looks to me. Don't seem like it ought to be that way, but I reckon the rich ain't got no time to fool with us poor folks.

O shameful philanthropists! O philosophers, without heart or imagination! Do you think that man is a machine like the rest of your machines? You deprive him of his most sacred rights on the pretext of saving him from work which you pretend to consider beneath his dignity, but which is, in fact, the very law of his existence (Monday 16 May 1853).

Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all.

If one of my boys was asking me if they should go into politics, I'd say there's only one reason to go into public life and that's to help people.

Frankly, I'm not religious, but I believe in the cause of humanity - doing good work.