Philanthropy Quotes - Page 11

• I am lord of myself, accountable to none.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Accountability, Lord, Character Education

  Benjamin Franklin (19??). “The life and letters of Benjamin Franklin”

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• Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined with a perfectly disciplined will that refuses to give in. It's a state of mind-you could call it character in action.

  Vince Lombardi

  Leadership, Character, Sacrifice

  Vince Lombardi (2003). “What It Takes to Be #1 : Vince Lombardi on Leaders: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, p.120, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Generosity, Giving, Advice

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• In business, you're trying to make a buck. God was good to me and blessed me. I made some money and started this foundation years ago, and it has grown in size. With the foundation it's a lot different, because the bottom line isn't how you can make more money or get a better return, it's helping the projects that you feel strongly about move forward.

  Lee Iacocca

  Money, Business, Moving

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• I wanted to win to feed the hungry people of my community. I didn't want to win to buy a diamond.. I didn't have no diamonds then. I didn't want to win to buy a car, I didn't want to win to bring a couple of chicks downtown to a hotel. I wanted to win to feed the poor people of the community.

  Mr. T

  Couple, Winning, Car

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• How about no income tax at all on people over 65? People would continue working, remain healthier, not be an economic and social drain on society. Then the elderly would also have more disposable income to help charitable activities.

  John Templeton

  Optimistic, Elderly, People

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• School performance, public health, crime rates, clinical depression, tax compliance, philanthropy, race relations, community development, census returns, teen suicide, economic productivity, campaign finance, even simple human happiness - all are demonstrably affected by how (and whether) we connect with our family and friends and neighbours and co-workers.

  Robert D. Putnam

  Suicide, School, Simple

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

  Everett Dirksen

  Heart, Compassion, Mind

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• When lack of funds prevents hospitals from functioning efficiently and fully, private philanthropy of all kinds must help. The difference it makes in terms of human betterment, represents the kind of happiness that money really can buy.

  Henry Townley Heald

  Differences, Helping, Kind

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Sacrifice, Self

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.127, Harvard University Press

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

  Margaret Deland

  Spiritual, Sacrifice, Self

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• How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!

  Eric Hoffer

  Sacrifice, Self, Realization

  "Thoughts of Eric Hoffer, Including: 'Absolute Faith Corrupts Absolutely'" by Eric Hoffer in The New York Times Magazine (p. 60), April 25, 1971.

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

  Robert G. Allen

  Earth, Pay, Existence

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• 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.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Father, Writing, Organization

  Michael Bloomberg's Slate 60 Dinner Keynote Address At William J. Clinton Presidential Library In Little Rock, Arkansas, www1.nyc.gov. November 12, 2006.

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• 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.

  Felix Dennis

  Pay, Difficult, Charitable

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• 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.

  Felix Dennis

  Inspirational, Thinking, Land

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• 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?'

  Melinda Gates

  Thinking, Risk, Backyards

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• 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.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Life, Optimistic, Expression

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

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Problem, Solutions

  FaceBook post by Mark Victor Hansen from May 17, 2010

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• 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.

  Lee Iacocca

  Money, Learning, School

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• 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.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Country, War, Iraq

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• 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.

  T. Boone Pickens

  Money, Giving, Steps

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

  David Rockefeller

  Success, Leadership, Creativity

  David Rockefeller (2011). “Memoirs”, p.396, Random House

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• 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.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Religious, Money, Believe

  John D. Rockefeller (2015). “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth”, p.23, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• 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.

  Rigoberta Menchu

  Zoos, Past, Racism

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