Philanthropic Quotes - Page 5

• In the U.S., philanthropic support from entrepreneurs is tightly integrated into the fabric of society, whether it's health care, medical research, or education. Now, slowly, China will know this.

  Li Ka-shing

  Support, Entrepreneur, Care

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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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• Don't just put it off and think about it!

  Horace

  Thinking, Charity, Philanthropy

  Daniel H. Garrison, Horace (1998). “Horace: Epodes and Odes”, p.335, University of Oklahoma Press

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• What the poor need is not charity but capital, not caseworkers but coworkers. And what the rich need is a wise, honorable and just way of divesting themselves of their overabundance.

  Clarence Jordan

  Wise, Money, Differences

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• Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Motivation, Helping Others, Community

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• We are, after all, only trustees of the wealth we possess. Without the community and its resources... there would be little wealth for anyone.

  John Ruskin

  Community, Would Be, Charity

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• Whatever we give to the wretched, we lend to fortune.

  Seneca the Younger

  Giving, Charity, Philanthropy

  "Troades", 697 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 595-596), 1922.

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• A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

  Seneca the Younger

  Birthday, Done, Benefits

  "De Beneficiis" by Seneca the Younger, I. 6, 63 AD.

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• Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Office, Done, Charity

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• He who gives only what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.

  Henry Taylor

  Sacrifice, Self, Essence

  Henry Taylor (1853). “Notes from Life in Seven Essays”, p.13

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• An attitude of gratitude creates blessings. Help yourself by helping others. You have the most powerful weapons on earth - love and prayer.

  John Templeton

  Love, Gratitude, Prayer

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• To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

  Mother Teresa

  Friendship, Faith, Inspiration

  1975 In Time, 29 Dec.

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• The Americans make associations to give entertainment, to found seminaries, to build inns, to construct churches, to diffuse books, to send missionaries to the antipodes; in this manner, they found hospitals, prisons and schools.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Book, School, Giving

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• There is no cause half so sacred as the cause of the people. There is no idea so uplifting as the idea of the service of humanity.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Trust, Uplifting, Ideas

  Woodrow Wilson (1956). “A Crossroads of Freedom: The 1912 Campaign Speeches”

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• Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-caluculated less or more.

  William Wordsworth

  Generosity, Giving, Heaven

  William Wordsworth, “Inside Of King's College Chapel, Cambridge”

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• With a generation of younger folks who have thrived on the success of their companies, there is a big opportunity for many of us to give back earlier in our lifetime and see the impact of our philanthropic efforts.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Opportunity, Impact, Giving

  "Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg signs up for Giving Pledge" by Dominic Rushe, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2010.

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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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• 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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• Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religious, Saint, Body

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.349, Рипол Классик

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• It never was our guise to slight the poor, or aught humane despise.

  Homer

  Charity, Philanthropy, Poor

  Homer (1811). “The Odyssey of Homer, translated by Alexander Pope”, p.274

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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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• 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!

  Honore de Balzac

  Writing, Style, Thieves

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• It has been said that the people of this country are deeply interested in the humanitarian and philanthropic considerations involved in [the Eastern Question]. All must appreciate such feelings. But I am mistaken if there be not a yet deeper sentiment on the part of the people of this country, one with which I cannot doubt your lordships will ever sympathise, and that is - the determination to maintain the Empire of England.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Country, Determination, People

  Benjamin Disraeli's speech in the House of Lords, February 20, 1877.

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