Quotes About Philanthropy

You've got to give something back. You can't just sit there.

giving is a duty not a choice. Giving has no boundaries but it may be done under a noble discretion

I realized during some of the darkest moments of my life, that the most beautiful and precious happiness in the world is the Joy of Giving.

Every man is capable of doing good to another, but to contribute to the happiness of an entire society is to become akin to the gods

They have typically been supported by a few wealthy individuals who have become persuaded—by a Frederick Vanderbilt Field, or an Anita McCormick Blaine, or a Corliss Lamont, to mention a few names recently prominent, or by a Friedrich Engels, to go farther back.

You know what really gives you satisfaction?" What? "Offering others what you have to give.

Giving is living.

When you give, you get," he said.

When Jonas Salk, a scientist at the University of Pittsburgh, found it and developed the first polio vaccine in 1952, he did not patent the lifesaving treatment. There is no patent, Salk told the broadcaster Edward R. Murrow: Could you patent the sun?

In that case I feel sorry for you.' 'Then perform an act of charity.

lo que cuenta a veces no es lo que se da, sino lo que se cede. La sombra del viento

Give it to Charity. I don't want it anymore.

Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons—throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to.

I have always encouraged my restaurant operators and team members to give back to the local community.

After the sale of Celtel, I really wanted to give the money back, and I had a number of choices - to go and buy masses of blankets and baby milk or to go into Darfur or Congo. That would have been very nice actually, but it's just like an aspirin: it doesn't deal with the problem.

I don't know how many people there are with a million dollars who are inclined to give it to a writers' retreat.

If people are going to give, they're going to give. And it doesn't matter if you give a dollar or five dollars or a hundred dollars or a million dollars; it's all according to your ability.

The biggest thing the money Infosys brought me is the freedom to do what I want. And what I want is to give millions more the opportunities I had.

By understanding and harnessing the forces that drive human behavior, you can create a self-sustaining philanthropic effort that reaches millions of people. It begins with an entrepreneurial attitude: take an idea and execute on that idea. If it doesn't work, learn why and build on what you've learned.

To think that some people don't have clean water was mind-boggling to me.

The amount of work that a for-profit has to do to get real money is minimal compared to the amount of work it takes a non-profit to get even a very small grant.

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

If you serve humanity, you serve humanity's God.

The intelligentsia have largely ignored or downplayed the things in which Americans lead the world—including philanthropy, technology, and the creation of life-saving medicines—and treated the errors, flaws and shortcomings that Americans share with human beings around the world as special defects of "our society.