Philanthropic Quotes - Page 5

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

  Paul Newman

  Attitude, Thinking, Noble

  "Paul Newman's Road To Glory". Interview with Paul Fischer, Film Monthly, July 1, 2002.

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• I really enjoy being able to spend my time doing different charitable and philanthropic activities.

  Jennie Garth

  Different, Able, Enjoy

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• 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.

  Dikembe Mutombo

  Basketball, Nba, Games

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• 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.

  Frances Power Cobbe

  Responsibility, Giving, Agitation

  Frances Power Cobbe (2010). “The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures”, p.158, Cambridge University Press

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• 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.

  Steve Tisch

  Mother, Children, Father

  "Super Bowl Q&A with … Steve Tisch". Interview with Steve Serby, nypost.com. February 5, 2012.

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• We are responsible for the world in which we find ourselves, if only because we are the only sentient force which can change it.

  James A. Baldwin

  World, Charity, Philanthropy

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• My own philanthropic efforts have always included an educational element, whether it's expanding opportunities to educate a promising mind or extending the brain's ability to learn.

  Naveen Jain

  Educational, Opportunity, Effort

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• We live in an interdependent world. Every time you cut off somebody else's opportunities, you shrink your own horizons.

  William J. Clinton

  Cutting, Opportunity, Horizon

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• When wealth is centralized, the people are dispersed. When wealth is distributed, the people are brought together.

  Confucius

  Inspiring, Karma, People

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• Helping people doesn't have to be an unsound financial strategy.

  Melinda Gates

  People, Charity, Helping

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• The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.

  Melinda Gates

  Foundation, Charity, Next

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We started our foundation because we believe we have a real opportunity to help advance equity around the world, to help make sure that, no matter where a person is born, he or she has the chance to live a healthy, productive life.

  Melinda Gates

  Life, Real, Believe

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• Scatter plenty o'er a smiling land.

  Thomas Gray

  Land, Charity, Philanthropy

  Thomas Gray (1828). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray: With an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author”, p.64

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• Generosity is the flower of justice.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Inspirational, Flower, Generosity

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Julian Hawthorne (2015). “Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.410, e-artnow

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• I've always said that the better off you are, the more responsibility you have for helping others. Just as I think it's important to run companies well, with a close eye to the bottom line, I think you have to use your entrepreneurial experience to make corporate philanthropy effective.

  Carlos Slim

  Running, Eye, Responsibility

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• There is a natural law, a Divine law, that obliges you and me to relieve the suffering, the distressed and the destitute.

  Conrad Hilton

  Inspiring, Law, Suffering

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• The practice of charity will bind us...will bind all men in one great brotherhood.

  Conrad Hilton

  Men, Practice, People

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• When you stop giving and offering something to the rest of the world, it's time to turn out the lights.

  George Burns

  Inspiring, Teamwork, Light

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• The truth of the matter is: you can create a great legacy, and inspire others, by giving it to philanthropic organizations.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Organization, Giving, Inspire

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• I've always respected those who tried to change the world for the better, rather than just complain about it.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Complaining, World, Charity

  Michael Bloomberg, Matthew Winkler (1997). “Bloomberg by Bloomberg”, Wiley

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• The United States is at a critical juncture in time. Our government is riddled with historic debt, and the limited resources of philanthropic and non-profit efforts cannot meet the scale of social challenges we face with necessary force.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Government, Effort, Challenges

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

  John Bunyan

  Men, Mad, Charity

  'The Pilgrim's Progress' (1684) pt. 2

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• Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Kindness, Sacrifice

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• The mission of law is not to oppress persons and plunder them of their property, even thought the law may be acting in a philanthropic spirit. Its mission is to protect property.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Law, Acting, May

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• It is unlikely that many people will take to heart the conclusion that coming into existence is always a harm. It is even less likely that many people will stop having children. By contrast, it is quite likely that my views either will be ignored or will be dismissed. As this response will account for a great deal of suffering between now and the demise of humanity, it cannot plausibly be thought of as philanthropic. That is not to say that it is motivated by any malice towards humans, but it does result from a self-deceptive indifference to the harm of coming into existence.

  David Benatar

  Children, Heart, Self

  David Benatar (2008). “Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence”, p.225, Oxford University Press

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