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Life Quotes... Charity & Philanthropy
“No man actually owns a fortune. It owns him.”
A. P. Giannini
“Understanding human needs is half the job of
meeting them.”
Adlai E. Stevenson
“It is with narrow-souled people as with
narrow-necked bottles: the less they have in them the more noise they
make in pouring it out.”
Alexander Pope
“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly
strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for
knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.”
Bertrand Russell
“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up
someone else.”
Booker T. Washington
“No person was ever honored for what he
received. Honor has been
the reward for what he gave.”
Calvin Coolidge
“Money is like manure.
If you spread it around, it does a lot of good, but if you pile
it up in one place, it stinks like hell.”
Clint W. Murchison
“Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by
brooding over man’s capacity for evil.”
David Sarnoff
“When we grow old, there can only be one regret
- not to have given enough of ourselves.”
Eleonora Duse
“Plenty of people despise money, but few know
how to give it away.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“The dead carry with them to grave in their
clutched hands only that which they have given away.”
DeWitt Wallace
“The desire for power in excess caused angels
to fall; the desire for knowledge in excess caused man to fall; but in
charity is no excess, neither can man or angels come into danger by
it.”
Francis Bacon
“Charity is the power of defending that which
we know to be indefensible. Hope
is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be
desperate.”
G. K. Chesterton
“The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is
not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence
of inhumanity.”
George Bernard Shaw
“‘Tis always more blessed to give than to
receive; for example, wedding presents.”
H. L. Mencken
“The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made
of the same water. It
flows down, clear and cool, from the heights of Hermon and the roots
of the cedars of Lebanon. The
Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, for the Sea of Galilee has an
outlet, It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour
them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain.
But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror.
But the Dead Sea has no outlet.
It gets to keep.”
Harry Emerson Fosdick
“Science may have found a cure for most evils;
but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of
human beings.”
Helen Keller
“Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which
is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Sometimes give your services for nothing.”
Hippocrates
“Money-giving is a very good criterion . . . of
a person’s mental health. Generous
people are rarely mentally ill people.”
Karl A. Menninger
Once asked what action he would recommend if a
person were to feel a nervous breakdown coming on:
“Lock up your house, go across the railroad tracks, and find
someone in need and do something for him.”
Karl A. Menninger
“Everybody wants to do something to help, but
nobody wants to be first.”
Pearl Bailey
“We cannot exist without mutual help.
All, therefore, that need aid have a right to ask it from their
fellow men, and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it
without guilt.”
Sir Walter Scott
“Charity begins at home.”
Terence
“As the purse is emptied the heart is
filled.”
Victor Hugo
“A man’s true wealth is the good he does in
this world.”
“Give a man a fish and he will live for a day;
give him a net, and he will live for a lifetime.”
Chinese proverb
“We find our lives in losing them in the
service of others.”
“You can’t help someone uphill without
getting closer to top yourself.”
“There is no limit to the good you can do if you
don’t care who gets the credit.”
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