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“The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.”

Mind Heart Compassion Philanthropy Persuasion No Compassion Power Of Persuasion

Author:Everett Dirksen

“Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.”

Humans Responsibility Ignorance Fundamentals Human Life Philanthropy Provision

Author:Woodrow Wilson

“Philanthropy is all about making a positive difference in the world by devoting your resources and your time to causes you believe in. In my case, I like to support causes where "a lot of good comes from a little bit of good," or, in other words, where the positive social returns vastly exceed the amount of time and money invested.”

World Believe Littles Social Causes Bits Differences Money Cases Support Return Amount Little Bit Resources Philanthropy Exceed Belive Time And Money

Author:Jeffrey Skoll

“Self sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.”

Real Self Grows Sacrifice Miracle Philanthropy Self Sacrifice

Book:The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude

Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude

“Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.”

Self Spiritual Spirituality Common Virtue Sacrifice Deny Common Sense Philanthropy Self Sacrifice Dissipation Personal Sacrifice

Author:Margaret Deland

“How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!”

Self Sacrifice Easier Self Realization Realization Philanthropy Self Sacrifice

Author:Eric Hoffer

“Charity is just writing checks and not being engaged. Philanthropy, to me, is being engaged, not only with your resources but getting people and yourself really involved and doing things that haven't been done before.”

People Giving Writing Done Havens Involved Resources Charity Checks Engaged Philanthropy

Author:Eli Broad

“If service is the rent you pay for your existence on this earth, are you behind in your rent?”

Ifs Earth Pay Behinds Existence Philanthropy

Author:Robert G. Allen

“When it comes to helping out, I don't believe in doing it for the media attention. My goal is to support the organizations that need help.”

Needs Believe Helping Goal Attention Support Media Self Improvement Organization Don't Believe Business Success Philanthropy Need Help

Author:Paul Allen

“My father, a bookkeeper who never earned more than $11,000 a year in his life, sat there, writing out a $25 check to the NAACP. When I asked him why, he said discrimination against anyone is discrimination against us all. And I never forgot that. Indeed, his philanthropy was a gift, not just to that organization, but to me.”

Writing Years Said Father Organization Discrimination Checks Sat Philanthropy Accounting Naacp Bookkeepers

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“It's very difficult to be continuously charitable in a capitalistic society. You've also got to make sure that you can pay everyone who works for you.”

Difficult Pay Capitalism Philanthropy Charitable

Author:Felix Dennis

“I've been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the money is going into it when I die.. and in the end I'd like to think that it will be 20 to 30,000 acres.”

Thinking Inspirational Years Ends Dies Environment Tree Land Environmental Busy Buying Philanthropy Acres Pseudonyms

Author:Felix Dennis

“We look in our own backyard and say, 'How do we help at-risk families, at risk youth? How do we think through some of the problems affecting the Pacific Northwest and make some change there?'”

Thinking Looks Helping Problem Risk Youth Philanthropy Pacific Backyards Pacific Northwest

Author:Melinda Gates

“We see community organizations as major service providers and economic drivers rather than as recipients or distributors of charity, and coordinators of volunteers. Today they constitute what's referred to as 'the social economy'.”

Today Social Community Economy Economic Majors Economics Organization Charity Drivers Philanthropy Volunteer Providers Distributors Service Providers Coordinator

Author:Julia Gillard

“Every individual's purpose in tithing is to open up his/her awareness of universal laws. Tithing opens you, to you. You are an unlimited individual, deprived of a fuller, richer life partly because of lack of the tithing experience and expression in life.”

Life Law Purpose Individual Awareness Expression Universal Optimistic Philanthropy Unlimited Deprived Universal Laws Tithing

Author:Mark Victor Hansen

“As a tither you automatically become solution-oriented rather than problem-oriented.”

Problem Solutions Philanthropy

Author:Mark Victor Hansen

“As the funds you will expend have come from many places in the world, so let there be no territorial, religious, or color restrictions on your benefactions, but beware of organized, professional charities with high-salaried executives and a heavy ratio of expense.”

World Religious Color Charity Heavy Organized Fund Executives Expenses Philanthropy Restriction Places In The World Ratios Territorial

Author:Conrad Hilton

“I was fortunate to get a scholarship when I went to Lehigh University and Princeton. They were both wonderful schools. Somebody was kind enough to spend their money to educate people that they would never get to know. That's what I think philanthropy is about.”

People Thinking Knows Kind Enough School Money Learning Wonderful University Fortunate Educate Philanthropy Scholarship Princeton

Author:Lee Iacocca

“If you think of life as like a big pie, you can try to hold the whole pie and kill yourself trying to keep it, or you can slice it up and give some to the people around you, and you still have plenty left for yourself.”

People Ifs Thinking Life Giving Trying Stills Whole Bigs Left Greed Plenty Pie Philanthropy Philanthropist Killing Yourself Philanthropy Giving

Author:Jay Leno

“Earlier in this century, philanthropy often flowed from the wills of dead industrialists. In recent decades, it's as likely to have come from a very alive business leader, entertainer, artist or sports star. The most effective of these patrons begin the process of giving by asking what they care about passionately.”

Giving Care Artist Stars Sports Process Leader Alive Century Asking Decades Philanthropy Entertainers Business Leaders Patron Sports Stars

Author:Michael Milken

“There's no substitute for rolling up your sleeves and working with the people who can make a difference. They get the benefit of your participation and you gain a direct understanding of the real problems and potential solutions, which makes you a more informed giver.”

“True generosity must benefit both parties. No woman can control her destiny if she doesn't give to herself as much as she gives of herself.”

Ifs Giving Party Destiny Benefits Generosity Philanthropy True Generosity

Author:Suze Orman

“If the Americans would only take all the money they have spent on this war (Iraq), and spend it like Soros has done on civil societies in these countries, then in 10 years they would have wonderful results.”

Ifs Years War Country Done Results Wonderful Iraq Philanthropy Civil Society

Author:Orhan Pamuk

“I don't go looking for somewhere to spend my money. You can step on a tube of toothpaste for a week, if you have to. I spend what I need to and give it away.”

Ifs Needs Giving Money Steps Week Philanthropy Tubes Toothpaste

Author:T. Boone Pickens

“Successful charitable fund-raising has much in common with managing a business: It requires leadership, persistence, and creativity.”

Success Leadership Common Creativity Successful Persistence Fund Philanthropy Charitable

Book:Memoirs

Source: Memoirs

“I believe it is a religious duty to get all the money you can, fairly and honestly; to keep all you can, and to give away all you can.”

Giving Believe I Believe Religious Money Duty Honestly Philanthropy

Book:John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth

Source: John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth

“I get angry when someone calls me only rich.. I am happy with my social personality and my generosity.”

Happiness Social Rich Personality Angry Generosity Call Me Philanthropy

Author:Sak?p Sabanc?

“We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims of intolerance and racism.”

People Want Past Racism Victim Human Rights Myth Tolerance Ruins Intolerance Philanthropy Refugee Jungle Indigenous Zoos Indigenous People

Author:Rigoberta Menchu

“We believe that human rights transcend boundaries and must prevail over state sovereignty.”

Believe Humans States Rights Human Rights Boundaries Philanthropy Sovereignty Human Rights Day

Author:Jose Ramos-Horta

“Charity begins at home.”

Life Home Charity Nationalism Philanthropy Charity Begins At Home

Book:Terence's Comedies: Translated Into English Prose, as Near as the Propriety of the Two Languages Will Admit; Together with the Original Latin from the Best Editions ... with Notes Pointing Out the Connexion of the Several Scenes, and an Index Critical and Phraseological ...

Source: Terence's Comedies: Translated Into English Prose, as Near as the Propriety of the Two Languages Will Admit; Together with the Original Latin from the Best Editions ... with Notes Pointing Out the Connexion of the Several Scenes, and an Index Critical and Phraseological ...

“The gift without the giver is rare.”

Giving Thanks Generosity Philanthropy Thank You Stewardship Giver Giving In Alms Gift Giving Thanks You Gifts And Giving

Author:James Russell Lowell

“Philanthropy is loving, and ameliorative, revolutionary; it wakens lofty desires, new possibilities, achievements, and energies; ... it touches thought to spiritual issues, systematizes action, and insures success.”

Action Spiritual Desire Energy Issues Possibility Achievement Generosity Revolutionary Philanthropy Lofty New Possibilities

Book:Christian Science Sentinel

Source: Christian Science Sentinel

“Legal plunder has two roots: One, as we have just seen, is in human selfishness; the other is in false philanthropy.”

Humans Two Justice Morality Roots Selfishness Philanthropy Plunder

Author:Frederic Bastiat

“The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.”

Men World Self Force Leadership History Self Esteem Bravery Rose Self Confidence Esteem Sheer Philanthropy World History Tenacity

Book:Wof : Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Source: Wof : Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

“I love my fellow creatures - I do all the good I can - yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man!”

Men Love I Can Creatures Fellows Philanthropy Disagreeable

Book:The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan

Source: The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan

“Philanthropy should be voluntary.”

Should Success Philanthropy

Author:Bill Gates

“Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.”

Kind Success Creativity Focus Building Skills Philanthropy Building A Business

Author:Bill Gates

“The last, best fruit which comes to late perfection, even in the kindliest soul, is tenderness toward the hard, forbearance toward the unforbearing, warmth of heart toward the cold, philanthropy toward the misanthropic.”

Heart Soul Hard Lasts Kindness Cold Late Perfection Fruit Warmth Tenderness Philanthropy Forbearance Misanthropic Warmth Of Heart

Author:Jean Paul

“The Girl Scouts is where I became acquainted with the idea that a woman can do anything. Learning that early on has a tremendous impact on the development of a young girl's personality. It had a huge impact on me. Girl Scouts is where I first learned about philanthropy and fell in love with the concept of helping others-in my troop this was very important. We did a lot of community service like picking up trash and feeding the homeless. Loving humankind was something that echoed throughout my time at Girl Scouts.”

“No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.”

Source: Law and Order

“If the barricades went up in our streets and the poor became masters, I think the priests would escape, I fear the gentlemen would; but I believe the gutters would simply be running with the blood of philanthropists.”

Ifs Thinking Believe Running I Believe Fear Poor Blood Streets Masters Gentleman Priests Philanthropy Philanthropist Gutters Barricades

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Never think you need to apologize for asking someone to give to a worthy cause, any more than as though you were giving him or her an opportunity to participate in a high-grade investment. The duty of giving is as much his or hers as is the duty of asking yours.”

Thinking Needs Giving Opportunity Causes Duty Asking Investment Worthy Grades Philanthropy Apologizing Worthy Causes

Author:John D. Rockefeller

“The type and formula of most schemes of philanthropy or humanitarianism is this: A and B put their heads together to decide what C shall be made to do for D. The radical vice of all these schemes, from a sociological point of view, is that C is not allowed a voice in the matter, and his position, character, and interests, as well as the ultimate effects on society through C's interests, are entirely overlooked. I call C the Forgotten Man.”

Source: What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

“The world order needs a major overhaul.”

World Needs Order Majors Philanthropy World Order

Book:Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror

Source: Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror

“The progress of the world will call for the best that all of us have to give.”

World Giving Progress Philanthropy

Author:Mary McLeod Bethune

“One percent of the equity, 1 percent of the profits, and 1 percent of the people go into Google.org. The most important asset isn’t money, it’s people. One percent of the people means 60 or 70 of the smartest people in the world trying to solve some of the biggest problems in the world.”

People World Trying Mean Important Problem Percent Profit Solve Making Money Assets Google Philanthropy Equity

Author:Larry Brilliant

“Philanthropist, n.: A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.”

Rich Conscience Gentleman Pockets Philanthropy Philanthropist

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“Philanthropy, like Red Cross voluntarism, is realizing the enhancing influence of cultural diversity. Inviting the full participation of all the community's resources leads to win-win situations.”

Winning Realizing Community Situation Influence Diversity Resources Red Crosses Philanthropy Participation Inviting Cultural Diversity Win Win Red Cross Win Win Situation

Author:Gwen Jackson

“All philanthropy ... is only a savory fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer. This incense offering makes the air more endurable to passers-by, but it does not hinder the infection in the sewer from spreading.”

Doe Air Mouths Burning Offering Philanthropy Hinder Infection Incense Sewers Savory

Author:Ellen Key

“Philanthropy, like charity, must begin at home.”

Home Charity Philanthropy

Author:Charles Lamb