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“One of the things that I realize is that if you look at big business, I mean, they - and what they fund and what they do, they don't really - they don't fund the small non-profit community-based organizations that really are out there on the front lines helping people. They fund the big philanthropies. They're safe.”

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Author:Rick Santorum

“We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.”

People Life Positive Thinking Perception Being Yourself About Yourself Be You Self Determination Philanthropy Express Yourself Just Be Yourself Define Yourself Self Perception Not Being Yourself Perception Of Others Perceived Self

Author:Virginia Satir

“I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.”

Author:Albert Schweitzer

“The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.”

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Author:Walter Scott

“Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.”

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Author:William Shakespeare

“'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.”

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Author:William Shakespeare

“If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.”

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Author:Mother Teresa

“Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.”

Source: Mother Teresa: Essential Writings

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”

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Book:Aesop's fables

Source: Aesop's fables

“Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.”

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Author:Ted Turner

“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.”

“What really matters is what you do with what you have.”

“Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.”

“I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life.”

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Author:Oprah Winfrey

“That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.”

“Engaging in social business is beneficial to a company because it leverages on business competencies to address social issues, involves one-time investment with sustainable results, and produces other positive effects such as employee motivation and improved organizational culture.”

“Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won't make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa - and it's about getting a balance.”

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Author:Richard Branson

“The man who dies rich, dies disgraced.”

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Author:Andrew Carnegie

“Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others.”

People Giving Philanthropy

Author:Denis Diderot

“It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.”

Source: Catch-22: A Novel

“I've never been one who enjoys maintaining the status quo. I'm always pushing for new ideas, whether it's in business or philanthropy.”

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Author:Eli Broad

“Philanthropy is activism.”

Activism Philanthropy

Author:Eli Broad

“I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.”

“The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members”

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Author:Pearl S. Buck

“Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged.”

Charity Philanthropy Privileged Opium

Author:Chinua Achebe

“Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.”

Men Ends Born Ideals Activism Persist Philanthropy Idealism Idealist Affirming Predestined

Book:The Essential Holmes: Selections from the Letters, Speeches, Judicial Opinions, and Other Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Source: The Essential Holmes: Selections from the Letters, Speeches, Judicial Opinions, and Other Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.”

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Author:T. S. Eliot

“I choose to rise up out of that storm and see that in moments of desperation, fear, and helplessness, each of us can be a rainbow of hope, doing what we can to extend ourselves in kindness and grace to one another. And I know for sure that there is no them - there's only us.”

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Author:Oprah Winfrey

“a man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away the more he had.”

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Author:John Bunyan

“If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.”

“Perhaps the perusal of such works may, without injustice, be compared with the use of opiates, baneful, when habitually and constantly resorted to, but of most blessed power in those moments of pain and of langour, when the whole head is sore, and the whole heart sick. If those who rail indiscriminately at this species of composition, were to consider the quantity of actual pleasure it produces, and the much greater proportion of real sorrow and distress which it alleviates, their philanthropy ought to moderate their critical pride, or religious intolerance.”

Source: The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Biographical and critical notices of eminent novelists

“Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.”

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Book:The Picture Of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray

“Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.”

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Author:Barbara Bush

“If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.”

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Author:Barbara Bush

“Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.”

“Believe in something larger than yourself ... to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.”

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Author:Barbara Bush

“It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.”

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Author:Mother Teresa

“America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.”

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Author:George H. W. Bush

“Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.”

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Book:Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States - Complete Edition

Source: Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States - Complete Edition

“What would the daughters of the rich do with themselves if the poor ceased to exist?”

Ifs Poor Rich Daughter Philanthropy

Book:Burning your boats: the collected short stories

Source: Burning your boats: the collected short stories

“We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it. Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace.”

“In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own; and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.”

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Book:Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Source: Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

“They never fail who die in a great cause.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

“universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.”

Source: 101 Facts of life

“It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.”

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Author:Albert Einstein

“A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage.”

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Author:William Blake

“Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.”

“It is not the magnitude of our actions, but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.”

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Author:Mother Teresa

“Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.”

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Book:The Carlyle reader, selections ed. by J. Wood

Source: The Carlyle reader, selections ed. by J. Wood

“I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.”

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Book:The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and His Essay: The Gospel of Wealth

Source: The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and His Essay: The Gospel of Wealth

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