Top 21 Quotes About Philanthropic Giving
#1. Oh, I long to prove myself by writing! The best seems to die in me when I give it up. It is the self I love
not this efficient, philanthropic self.
Ruth Benedict
#2. My father ... very generous, very philanthropic, very charitable man. My siblings and I and my mother continue with always appreciating and always giving back. It's something I hope that I've become a role model for my children.
Steve Tisch
#3. It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it sadly fails me in framing an excuse; and always the lapse occurs at some crisis, when a facile word or plausible pretext is specially wanted to get me out of painful embarrassment.
Charlotte Bronte
#4. We should never lose sight of the very close link between individual giving and the formation of philanthropic traditions.
Robert L. Payton
#5. Every woman who has any margin of time or money to spare should adopt some one public interest, some philanthropic undertaking,or some social agitation of reform, and give to that cause whatever time and work she may be able to afford ...
Frances Power Cobbe
#6. When you change your story that you tell about yourself, you change your life. You can start telling a better story right now.
Sheri Kaye Hoff
#7. Much corporate giving is charitable in nature rather than philanthropic.
David Rockefeller
#8. The philanthropic tradition is older than democracy, older than Christianity, and older than higher education. It gives form and purpose to personal and social life that cannot be provided by the self-interest of economic enterprise or required by the mandate of political institutions.
Robert L. Payton
#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. The truth of the matter is: you can create a great legacy, and inspire others, by giving it to philanthropic organizations.
Michael Bloomberg
#11. Life doesn't come with an eraser. Experiences leave their mark, for better or for worse. Anyone who tells you otherwise has never been hurt.
Nenia Campbell
#12. I'm getting a diamond-hard boner just thinking about it.
Tim Dorsey
#13. The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty is hard on.
Ernest Hemingway,
#14. Let your soul lead the way, cause I'm that enemy that you can't see.
Puff Daddy
#15. The culture of caring and giving permeates many Indian families. In their own way, they are engaged in philanthropic pursuits.
Kumar Mangalam Birla
#16. Slipping away are the hopes that made Bliss out of sorrow, and sun out of shade, Slipping away is our hold on life; And out of the struggle and wearing strife ...
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#17. My giving story started with my parents - my late mother, Frances Arrillaga, who dedicated her life to philanthropic and community service, and my father, John Arrillaga, whose daily generosity of heart, mind, and hands-on contributions make him one of the most extraordinary philanthropists I know.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
#18. With a generation of younger folks who have thrived on the success of their companies, there is a big opportunity for many of us to give back earlier in our lifetime and see the impact of our philanthropic efforts.
Mark Zuckerberg
#19. My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt.
Ice-T
#20. Fashion and wearing clothes is a daily routine for everybody. What better way to spread the word of giving back and philanthropic ways of life than to wear something that gives back to charity?
Patrick Schwarzenegger