Philanthropy Quotes - Page 4

• I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.

  Hank Aaron

  Motivational, Racism, Guy

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

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• Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!

  George Washington Carver

  New Beginnings, Today Not Tomorrow, Words Of Wisdom

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• 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.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Peace, Money

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• I get angry when someone calls me only rich.. I am happy with my social personality and my generosity.

  Sak?p Sabanc?

  Happiness, Generosity, Personality

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• If you think of life as like a big pie, you can try to hold the whole pie and kill yourself trying to keep it, or you can slice it up and give some to the people around you, and you still have plenty left for yourself.

  Jay Leno

  Life, Thinking, Pie

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

  Melinda Gates

  People, Charity, Helping

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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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• How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

  Unknown

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Anne Frank from Dec 25, 2011

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• Earlier in this century, philanthropy often flowed from the wills of dead industrialists. In recent decades, it's as likely to have come from a very alive business leader, entertainer, artist or sports star. The most effective of these patrons begin the process of giving by asking what they care about passionately.

  Michael Milken

  Sports, Stars, Artist

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• One of the things that I encourage for anybody who is interested in their own charity or philanthropy is to start from where you are and what has mattered to you.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Charity, Where You Are

  "Exclusive: Interview With Oprah About Her School for Girls". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 12, 2012.

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• Shouldn't you put the same amount of effort into your giving as you might for your for-profit investments? After all, philanthropy is an investment, and one in which lives - not profits - are at stake.

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

  Giving, Effort, Might

  "How Innovation Can Fuel Your Giving" by Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 20, 2011.

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• He scorn'd his own, who felt another's woe.

  Thomas Campbell

  Gratitude, Woe, Scorn

  Thomas Campbell (1822). “Poetical Works”, p.95

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• Scatter plenty o'er a smiling land.

  Thomas Gray

  Land, Charity, Philanthropic

  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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• I will continue to distribute blankets, sleeping bags, warm clothing and food on a regular basis, in the hope that my modest efforts will give some comfort to those people we are able help.

  Mohamed Al-Fayed

  Inspirational, Sleep, People

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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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• 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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• My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.

  David Rockefeller

  Dad, Father, Tears

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

  Pearl S. Buck

  Inspiring, Civilization, Society

  My Several Worlds pt. 4 (1954) See Ramsey Clark 1; Dostoyevski 1; Humphrey 3; Samuel Johnson 69; Helen Keller 4

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• My religion is humanitarianism, which is the basis of every religion in the world.

  Abdul Sattar Edhi

  Volunteer, Religion, World

  "A Life Well Lived: A Tribute to Abdul Sattar Edhi". Waqar Haider Hashmi, Pakistaniaat (A Journal of Pakistan Studies), Volume 3, No. 2, 2011.

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• Long ago I lost the joy in living. The only joy I have is in my giving.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Long Ago, Giving, Joy

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• I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  Twitter post from Mar 03, 2017

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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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• The best philanthropy is constantly in search of the finalities-a search for a cause, an attempt to cure evils at their source.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Evil, Charity, Causes

  John D. Rockefeller (2003). “Random Reminiscences of Men and Events”, p.177, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• Sometimes give your services for nothing.

  Hippocrates

  Inspiring, Giving, Charity

  The Art VI

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