Quotes About Philanthropy

Once you are wealthy, you are in a nice comfort zone and want to stay there. So I always look in the mirror and ask, is my philanthropy making the world a more just and fair place?

You are never giving, nor can you ever give, enough service.

Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.

Organized charity, scrimped and iced, In the name of the cautious, statistical Christ.

Our charity begins at home, And mostly ends where it begins.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

Teach us to give and not to count the cost.

Generosity is the vanity of giving.

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither praise nor reward, though sure of both at last.

When you're in your nineties and looking back, it's not going to be how much money you made or how many awards you've won. It's really what did you stand for. Did you make a positive difference for people?

He gives twice who gives promptly.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

It is more blessed to give than to receive.

We must give alms. Charity wins souls and draws them to virtue.

The results of philanthropy are always beyond calculation.

An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness. I suppose it is a philanthropic movement to try to reverse the process.

Charity looks at the need, not at the cause.

He is rich who hath enough to be charitable.

Isn't it better to have men be ungrateful, than to miss a chance to do good?

Behold! I do not give lectures on a little charity. When I give, I give myself.

He that will not permit his wealth to do any good for others ... cuts himself off from the truest pleasure here and the highest happiness later.

To devote a portion of one's leisure to doing something for someone else is one of the highest forms of recreation.

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.