I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.
Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed.
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members
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.
Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
I'm not doing my philanthropic work out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public relations. I'm doing it because I can afford to do it, and I believe in it.
We cannot preserve philanthropic and charitable values if we detach them completely from our fundamental personal beliefs and convictions.
The difference between charity and philanthropy is the distance of the soul... To be philanthropic is to give something, to be charitable is to give one's own heart.
Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.
To make the peaks higher. [His reason to target philanthropic funding to only the best university science departments.]
Women's philanthropic leadership is fundamental to their advancement in society.
The Million Man March was held on a Monday. Most marches were always held on a weekend and most marches were paid for by philanthropic groups and organizations and labor unions, etc. So, the people who came did not necessarily have to make a great sacrifice to be there.
The mission of the law is not to oppress persons and plunder them of their property, even though the law may be acting in a philanthropic spirit. Its purpose is to protect persons and property.... If you exceed this proper limit -- if you attempt to make the law religious, fraternal, equalizing, philanthropic, industrial, or artistic -- you will then be lost in uncharted territory, in vagueness and uncertainty, in a forced utopia or, even worse, in a multitude of utopias, each striving to seize the law and impose it on you.
Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
I have drifted away from thinking about these philanthropic things. And it was only as the wealth got large enough and Melinda and I had talked about the view that wealth wasn't something that would be good to just pass to the children.
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.
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'.
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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