Best Philanthropic Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

“I don't think there's anything exceptional or noble in being philanthropic. It's the other attitude that confuses me.”

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Author:Paul Newman

“Do your best with what you have where you are.”

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Author:Lucy Punch

“Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.”

Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam

“You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.”

Book:The Prophet - Der Prophet

Source: The Prophet - Der Prophet

“My father... very generous, very philanthropic, very charitable man. My siblings and I and my mother continue with always appreciating and always giving back. It's something I hope that I've become a role model for my children.”

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Author:Steve Tisch

“Modern reformers offer nebulous theories or write philanthropic novels. But your thief acts! He is as clear as a fact and as logical as a punch on the nose! And what a style he has!”

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Author:Honore de Balzac

“I really enjoy my philanthropic work, traveling around the world and helping people in need. That's a lot of fun for me. It's really rewarding. You're helping people, but it's helping you, too. It puts life in perspective...”

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Author:Larry Fitzgerald

“The fundamental principle [of settlement work] remains: that people shall take up their residence in industrial communities, giving what they may have of public spirit, and partaking of the life about them; preserving their identity as individuals and endeavoring to keep the settlement free from the institutional form of philanthropic work. ... the relationship is reciprocal.”

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Author:Lillian Wald

“I was the Chair of the WIFF Foundation, which is the philanthropic arm of Women In Film. The foundation runs the several programs including one that provide our film finishing fund. So we help women complete their films with a grant from Netflix. It's great to be associated with award winning films like 'Freeheld' and 'Circumstance'.”

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Author:Sharon Lawrence

“New York is a great place to be if you want to make an impact and be involved in charities or philanthropic organizations like my wife and I are.”

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Author:Justin Tuck

“I have failed a lot in my philanthropy, where I will make philanthropic contributions and they just won't be effective.”

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Author:Marc Benioff

“When I travel around the globe, I try as hard as I can to represent the NBA and the game of basketball to the best of my abilities. I get to go around the world and not only share the game but also my philanthropic work. Building a hospital in the Congo is one of the proudest achievements of my life.”

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Author:Dikembe Mutombo

“God never estimates what we give from impulse. We are given credit for what we determine in our hearts to give; for the giving that is governed by a fixed determination. The Spirit of God revolutionises our philanthropic instincts. Much of our philanthropy is simply the impulse to save ourselves an uncomfortable feeling. The Spirit of God alters all that. As saints our attitude towards giving is that we give for Jesus Christ's sake, and from no other motive.”

Source: The Quotable Oswald Chambers

“It's more blessed to give than to receive - especially kittens.”

“... oh, I long to prove myself by writing! The best seems to die in me when I give it up. It is the self I love--not this efficient, philanthropic self.”

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Book:An Anthropologist at Work

Source: An Anthropologist at Work

“Every woman who has any margin of time or money to spare should adopt some one public interest, some philanthropic undertaking,or some social agitation of reform, and give to that cause whatever time and work she may be able to afford.”

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Book:The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures

Source: The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures

“No matter how well-born, how intelligent, how highly educated, how virtuous, how rich, how refined, the women of to-day constitutea political class below that of every man, no matter how base-born, how stupid, how ignorant, how vicious, how poverty-stricken, how brutal. The pauper in the almshouse may vote; the lady who devotes her philanthropic thought to making that almshouse habitable, may not. The tramp who begs cold victuals in the kitchen may vote; the heiress who feeds him and endows universities may not.”

“To make the peaks higher. [His reason to target philanthropic funding to only the best university science departments.]”

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Author:Wickliffe Rose

“If you can't distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldn't undertake philanthropic work.”

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Author:Anton Chekhov

“We should never lose sight of the very close link between individual giving and the formation of philanthropic traditions.”

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Author:Robert L. Payton

“The philanthropic tradition is older than democracy, older than Christianity, and older than higher education. It gives form and purpose to personal and social life that cannot be provided by the self-interest of economic enterprise or required by the mandate of political institutions.”

“We cannot preserve philanthropic and charitable values if we detach them completely from our fundamental personal beliefs and convictions.”

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Author:Robert L. Payton

“As the owner of the Arison Group, a philanthropic and business enterprise that spans across 40 countries in 5 continents, my ongoing challenge is to bridge the gap between what I envision and its understanding and practical implementation. The Arison Group operates to realize the overall vision of Doing Good.”

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Author:Shari Arison

“In my new book, 'Birth,' my goal is to share the path I have traveled in the spiritual sphere and in the business and philanthropic sphere in order to reveal the essential connection between the two.”

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Author:Shari Arison

“I think the beauty industry is a stepping stone in terms of pageants that will give you a launching pad to be seen. For people to understand who you are and what you stand for... I think it teaches self esteem and self worth. And it also encourages you to have a more philanthropic viewpoint of the world.”

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Author:Kenya Moore

“I've always been business-minded. I worked in corporate America before becoming an actress and knew that acting wasn't the end but a means to an end. It gave me the platform and the exposure I needed to do my philanthropic work. It also gave me the financial security to focus on my other businesses, start new businesses, and even help other people start businesses.”

“I'm amazed by the potential of more companies employing integrated philanthropic initiatives at earlier stages in their life cycle. What if this were done on an even more massive scale? Consider what would happen if a top-tier venture-capital firm required the companies in which it invested to place 1% of their equity into a foundation serving the communities in which they do business.”

Source: The Business of Changing the World: Twenty Great Leaders on Strategic Corporate Philanthropy

“Do all the good you can, by all the means you can.”

“The main thing is to be philanthropic in your everyday life. You don't have to have money to do that. You can do it with your time and your energy.”

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Author:Eva Longoria

“Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!”

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Author:George Washington Carver

“Philanthropic leaders genially speak of complementing government, not competing with it as if monopoly were good and competition destructive-thus unwittingly conspiring against the public interest.”

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Author:Richard Cornuelle

“Philanthropy is often seen as society's risk capital. That means the onus is on philanthropists, nonprofit leaders and social entrepreneurs to innovate. But philanthropic innovation is not just about creating something new. It also means applying new thinking to old problems, processes and systems.”

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Author:Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

“If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.”

“American philanthropic custom owes much to leadership by business and professional people.”

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Author:Robert L. Payton

“As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.”

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Author:Victor Hugo

“I grew up in a business-inspired environment, and over the years have started and run several businesses and philanthropic organizations. Understanding how large corporations work, by having hands-on and board experience, I apply that knowledge to the benefit of all that I do.”

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Author:Shari Arison

“Nothing will serve you better than a strong work ethic. Nothing. And it's something that you can't teach. You have to be thrown into it, where you're going to sink or swim. It's amazing how self-correcting and how clarifying a good, hard, shitty job can be. Because at the end of the day, any profession I've seen anybody in, when you peer behind the curtains of Oh, wouldn't that be a great job? Wow, what an amazing thing, a philanthropic endeavor! it really just comes down to It's a f**king grind.”

“The resources you happen to accumulate, what do you do with them? You can spend the money and buy some houses or whatever, and people do some of that and that's fine. You can give the money to other people, your family, but usually when you do that you screw them up and it ends up counterproductive. Or, you take those resources and reinvest them in things that you believe in, and that could be reinvesting in a philanthropic cause.”

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Author:Steve Case

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