Philanthropy Quotes And Sayings

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“Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining.”
– Philo

“The last, best fruit which comes to late perfection, even in the kindliest soul, is tenderness toward the hard, forbearance toward the unforbearing, warmth toward the cold, philanthropy toward the misanthropic.”
– Jean Paul Richter

“I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.”
– John D. Rockefeller

“Long ago I lost the joy in living. The only joy I have is in my giving.”
– John D. Rockefeller

“Philanthropy lies at the heart of human greatness.”
– Patrick J. Ryan

“Philanthropic dollars are not free. They have to be earned with excellence and performance, with patience and long suffering.”
– Paul H. Schneiler

“The vineyards of philanthropy are pleasant places, and I would hope good men and women will be drawn there…. If these vineyards are to thrive and bear their best fruit, they must always have first-class attention.”
– Harold J. Seymour

“When it comes to philanthropy, write a check your heart can cash.”
– Jackie A. Strange

“Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.”
– Virginia Woolf

“Philanthropy is the one institution in America, even beyond education, that has a sixth sense of how to recognize and exploit human creativity.”
– Paul N. Ylvisaker

“What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.”
– Albert Pike

“Women’s philanthropic leadership is fundamental to their advancement in society.”
– Kay Ballard

“You have to get lost before you can be found.”
– Jeff Rasley

“Chasing angels or fleeing demons, go to the mountains.”
– Jeff Rasley

“In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own; and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.”
– Aberjhani

“What would the daughters of the rich do with themselves if the poor ceased to exist?”
– Angela Carter

“Fundraising is an extreme sport!”
– Marc A. Pitman

“In an out-of-body experience, your astral projection comes down to gloat. In insanity, your mind goes to a nudist colony. In philanthropy, your soul ascends to purgatory.”
– Bauvard

“Conservatives, who have presumed that the key to preventing AIDS is abstinence-only education, and liberals, who have focused on distribution of condoms, should both note that the intervention that has tested most cost-effective in Africa is neither… Secular bleeding hearts and religious bleeding hearts will have to forge a common cause.”
– Nicholas D. Kristof

“Giving Back reframes portraits of philanthropy.”
– Valaida Fullwood

“She gave me a pledge card, a card promising an annual gift of $5, $10, or $25 toward the support of the Unity mission. I filled it out under the hot light of the projector. The name and address spaces were much too short, unless you wrote a very fine hand or unless your name was Ed Poe and you lived at 1 Elm St.”
– Charles Portis

“I will help–but only so much, only so far. It is not that I believe these children are less than my own. It is not that I believe I do not have a responsibility for them. It is just that in a world of haves and have-nots, I do not want to give up too much of what I have. I do not want to diminish the complexity and diversity of my life. Instead, I will choose to spend another seventy-five dollars on myself rather than send another child to school, and I will choose to do this over and over again. I no longer think of myself as a good person. I have adjusted to that.”
– Sharman Apt Russell

“It is one of the many ironies of this period that, at a time when the intelligentsia were excoriating Mellon for tax-evasion, and contrasting the smooth-running Soviet planned economy with the breakdown in America, he was secretly exploiting the frantic necessities of the Soviet leaders to form the basis of one of America’s most splendid public collections”
– Paul Johnson

“All agree that, the first responsibility for the alleviation of poverty and distress and for the care of the victims of the depression rests upon the locality — its individuals, organizations and Government. It rests, first of all, perhaps, upon the private agencies of philanthropy, secondly, other social organizations, and last, but not least, the Church. Yet all agree that to leave to the locality the entire responsibility would result in placing the heaviest burden in most cases upon those who are the least able to bear it. In other words, the communities that have the most difficult problem, like Detroit, would be the communities that would have to bear the heaviest of the burdens. And so the State should step in to equalize the burden by providing for a large portion of the care of the victims of poverty and by providing assistance and guidance for local communities. Above and beyond that duty of the States the national Government has a responsibility.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The world order needs a major overhaul.”
– George Soros

“His words even imply that philanthropy has deeper depths than is generally realized. The great emotions of compassion and mercy are traced to Him; there is more to human deeds than the doers are aware. He identified every act of kindness as an expression of sympathy with Himself. All kindnesses are either done explicitly or implicitly in His name, or they are refused explicitly or implicitly in His name.”
– Fulton J. Sheen

“The sense of justice is continuous with the love of mankind.”
– John Rawls

“I am a philanthropist. I hand my clothes down to customers at half the price they would get them from their families. Even with all the discounts I give, my non-profit chain is highly lucrative.”
– Bauvard

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