Top 30 Best Philanthropist Quotes
#1. Just as the philanthropist is the nuisance of the ethical sphere, so the nuisance of the intellectual sphere is the man who is so occupied in trying to educate others, that he has never had any time to educate himself.
Oscar Wilde
#2. A charitable man is like an apple tree-he gives his fruit and is silent; the philanthropist is like the successful hen.
Austin O'Malley
#3. Princess Diana was a wonderful, caring philanthropist. She would come sometimes into the church and sit at the back and pray.
Princess Diana
#4. To consider yourself an environmentalist and still eat meat is like saying you're a philanthropist who doesn't give to charity.
Howard Lyman
#5. The philanthropist, the politician, and the pimp are inevitably found in alliance because they have the same motives, they seek the same ends, to exist for, through, and by others.
Isabel Paterson
#6. I want to be remembered as the biggest philanthropist in Turkey.
Husnu Ozyegin
#7. The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#8. I've been a philanthropist for all my life, and ... I've had many involvements in humanitarian and environmental issues.
Julian Lennon
#9. Online, you can become much more than a reactive donor - you can become a proactive, strategic, collaborative philanthropist, improving your giving every day by tapping into the wealth of philanthropic resources available at the tap of a keyboard or the click of a mouse.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
#10. Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#11. When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all their hearers brave and honest thinkers, then - and not until then - will the dream of poet, patriot, philanthropist and philosopher become a real and blessed truth.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#12. If every young person pursued their greatest passion and then said, 'What part of this can be applied to social good?' You don't have to choose between being successful and being a philanthropist.
Monique Coleman
#13. A pious woman's neighbor, a philanthropist's child, a liberal's servant
these three have a hard life.
Franz Grillparzer
#14. I did do an American pilot, but it wasn't shot in America, it was shot in South Africa. It was called 'The Philanthropist,' and it was for NBC.
Dominique McElligott
#15. If you hold a beggarly attitude, towards life,
do not expect everyone you meet, to be a philanthropist, to you
Kamini Arichandran
#16. My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.
Lady Gaga
#17. The philanthropist too often surrounds mankind with the remembrance of his own cast- off griefs as an atmosphere, and calls it sympathy. We should impart our courage, and not our despair, our health and ease, and not our disease, and take care that this does not spread by contagion.
Henry David Thoreau
#18. I'm right now standing inside Hamilton-Selway Fine Art as an artist, as a philanthropist, as a child of God, and more importantly as a human being.
Steven Jackson
#19. You can invest in companies, you can help grow companies, you can be a venture capitalist - and be a philanthropist at the same time.
Pierre Omidyar
#20. George Clooney is a wonderful philanthropist. But I've heard regular people say, "Would he just shut up and be hot?"
Wendy Williams
#21. I'm not a philanthropist. While I care about the poor, the issue of local or global poverty doesn't keep me up at night.
Andy Stanley
#22. Seeing results flow from my gifts is my greatest pleasure as a philanthropist - whether exonerating a jailed innocent or completing a Frank Gehry building. I want to enjoy my philanthropy.
Peter B. Lewis
#24. I may never be known as a philanthropist, but I certainly am a lover of mankind, and I will give freely of my resources.
Maya Angelou
#25. I certainly think Halle Berry's a wonderful role model. She's a terrific stepmother and has shown that in so many beautiful ways and has made such enormous strides for women culturally and such great successes as an actress and philanthropist.
Sharon Stone
#26. (a hangover without a head to torment is like a philanthropist without an institution to endow),
Tom Robbins
#27. I aspire to be like Paul Newman. He was a man's man, a lady's man, and the epitome of a philanthropist.
Trevor Donovan
#28. If you give me your attention, I will tell you what I am:
I'm a genuine philanthropist
all other kinds are sham.
Each little fault of temper and each social defect
In my erring fellow creatures, I endeavor to correct.
W.S. Gilbert
#29. But we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance.
George Eliot
#30. It's an irony that growing inequality could mean more money for philanthropy. In the U.S., quite a few of the ultra-rich have taken to heart the 19th century industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie's comment that it's a disgrace to die wealthy.
Geoff Mulgan
