Quotes About Philanthropy

Music and philanthropy have a long, benevolent relationship with one another. Record bins are rife with charity singles, and concert history is filled with benefit shows for every imaginable cause. Musicians like to give back.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

My mother taught me that to maximize your philanthropic potential, you need to constantly challenge your capabilities and put yourself in situations that are not always comfortable. Through her example, I discovered that there is no more beautiful way to live a life than to live a life of service.

I really want to move away from the old model in which you have to rely on people giving $10 after a humanitarian crisis to a newer model where people give money but also their time and their skills, whatever they have, to the causes that are personally meaningful to them well before the crisis moment presents itself.

I wanted to create a multibillion dollar company that lets me go out and let us go out and change the world and create a Skin Cancer Awareness Center that costs a quarter a billion dollars.

The true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind.

An act of love always tends towards two things; to the good that one wills, and to the person for whom one wills it.

Private charity can apply 'tough love' but government charity can't.

Every year Steve Kaufman supports the charity "Love Ride" by donating a painting to this cause.

I'd love to open a private museum in Paris, London, or New York, but I don't have the money. If I were Bill Gates or Paul Allen, the first thing I would do is build a museum.

When I make commitments I like to stick to them, especially when I'm giving back to kids. Just giving them an example of what they can achieve. I love giving back to kids. It's fantastic.

There are many people who have worked just because they love the community in which they are in, without expecting any financial consideration.

he also engaged in many charitable works, notably the building of one of the world's largest orphanages for boys (and boys alone; orphan girls would have to look elsewhere)

divested all my direct holdings in oil and gas companies, as did the trust that manages the Gates Foundation's endowment. (I hadn't had money in coal companies in several years.)

The Gates Foundation's whole approach to saving lives is based on the idea that we need to be pushing innovation for the poor while also increasing demand for it.

Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.

Never give charity if the reason is to make yourself feel better," he said. "Real charity is not selfish, but selfless." After

If we live with a good heart, good speech, and good action life will be good.

There's a little known virtue called magnificence: an unostentatious liberality of expenditure in doing good.

I express my faith by being extremely generous to others, particularly those in need -- not censorious of myself, which I see as a kind of useless, tight-fisted vanity.

From paying off friends' tax bills to rescuing stray dogs and stuffing &pound20 notes into the hands of homeless people, I can't get rid of my money fast enough.

One was led by a gentle, white-whiskered philanthropist named James Hack Tuke, who set off for Donegal at the beginning of March.

How much easier it is to be generous than just Men are sometimes bountiful who are not honest.