Top 83 Quotes About Philanthropic
#1. The United States is at a critical juncture in time. Our government is riddled with historic debt, and the limited resources of philanthropic and non-profit efforts cannot meet the scale of social challenges we face with necessary force.
Simon Mainwaring
#2. Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter.
Ida B. Wells
#3. Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed.
Theodor Herzl
#4. The mission of law is not to oppress persons and plunder them of their property, even thought the law may be acting in a philanthropic spirit. Its mission is to protect property.
Frederic Bastiat
#5. 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
#6. If I get the chance to be philanthropic, I want to help kids and teachers.
Jesse L. Martin
#7. However absurd it may seem, I do in all seriousness hereby declare that I am animated mainly by philanthropic motives. I desire to do good to my fellow creatures, even to the Cui bonos.
Oliver Heaviside
#8. The culture of caring and giving permeates many Indian families. In their own way, they are engaged in philanthropic pursuits.
Kumar Mangalam Birla
#9. American philanthropic custom owes much to leadership by business and professional people.
Robert L. Payton
#10. The difference between charity and philanthropy is the distance of the soul ... To be philanthropic is to give something, to be charitable is to give one's own heart.
Maya Angelou
#11. I really enjoy being able to spend my time doing different charitable and philanthropic activities.
Jennie Garth
#12. I have failed a lot in my philanthropy, where I will make philanthropic contributions and they just won't be effective.
Marc Benioff
#13. My own philanthropic efforts have always included an educational element, whether it's expanding opportunities to educate a promising mind or extending the brain's ability to learn.
Naveen Jain
#14. The best documentaries are independent. They don't exist to serve interests, philanthropic or otherwise.
Nick Fraser
#15. My mother taught me that to maximize your philanthropic potential, you need to constantly challenge your capabilities and put yourself in situations that are not always comfortable. Through her example, I discovered that there is no more beautiful way to live a life than to live a life of service.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
#16. Benefit performances, bad paintings and statues, philanthropic societies, Gypsies, schools, subscription dinners, carousing, the Masons, churches, books - no one and nothing met with refusal,
Leo Tolstoy
#17. We cannot preserve philanthropic and charitable values if we detach them completely from our fundamental personal beliefs and convictions.
Robert L. Payton
#18. Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing
characteristic.
Oscar Wilde
#19. Philanthropic humility is necessary if a giver is to do more good than harm, but it is not sufficient - philanthropic prudence is also needed.
Marvin Olasky
#20. Elvis was sincere, and he was - he was so loyal. And he was so homespun. He loved his mother, he loved America. You know, he loved his fellow man. He had a great humanitarian philanthropic sense.
Linda Thompson
#21. Amazon is a corporation, not a philanthropic trust dedicated to the production of works of art and literature.
Nick Harkaway
#22. 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
#23. There is a natural link between the effective running of my businesses and the effective direction of philanthropic funds. I apply business principles to my philanthropic work so that maximum value is given to the causes I support.
Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi
#24. I'm not doing my philanthropic work, out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public relations. I'm doing it because I can afford to do it, and I believe in it.
George Soros
#25. Philanthropy is often seen as society's risk capital. That means the onus is on philanthropists, nonprofit leaders and social entrepreneurs to innovate. But philanthropic innovation is not just about creating something new. It also means applying new thinking to old problems, processes and systems.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
#26. The main thing is to be philanthropic in your everyday life. You don't have to have money to do that. You can do it with your time and your energy.
Eva Longoria
#27. In my new book, 'Birth,' my goal is to share the path I have traveled in the spiritual sphere and in the business and philanthropic sphere in order to reveal the essential connection between the two.
Shari Arison
#28. I think musicians and artists are the most philanthropic people I know. Their charity record of the music business would hold up to the work of anybody.
Glenn Frey
#29. We must never forget what government is not. Government is not a philanthropic organization. Government is not the family. And government certainly is not the church.
Michele Bachmann
#30. Naming rights are a seductive philanthropic inducement, yet more anonymous operational support may better advance the charitable purpose.
George Kaiser
#31. I grew up in a business-inspired environment, and over the years have started and run several businesses and philanthropic organizations. Understanding how large corporations work, by having hands-on and board experience, I apply that knowledge to the benefit of all that I do.
Shari Arison
#32. When my husband Charles passed away in 2000, I took over as chair of our family's foundation. As I was mourning his loss, I also had to keep the foundation moving forward and to chart a course into what was then a very male-dominated philanthropic world.
Lynn Schusterman
#33. been baffled when Jobs insisted that he was not motivated by money, but it was partly true. He had neither Ellison's conspicuous consumption needs nor Gates's philanthropic impulses nor the competitive urge to see how high
Walter Isaacson
#34. I'm an artist, but, as I get older, I really want to do philanthropic work and help people.
Andie MacDowell
#35. For me, philanthropic return on investment is about making the biggest impact possible on fellow human beings, regardless of country, race or religion.
Bobby Sager
#36. I make a personal commitment to the direction and success of all the programs in which I invest. I make all major philanthropic decisions myself after taking account of a range of expert opinion.
Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi
#37. Football is a personal interest which has been turned into a philanthropic initiative directed at encouraging social cohesion during the difficult process of African modernisation.
Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi
#38. Modern reformers offer nebulous theories or write philanthropic novels. But your thief acts! He is as clear as a fact and as logical as a punch on the nose! And what a style he has!
Honore De Balzac
#39. To make the peaks higher.
[His reason to target philanthropic funding to only the best university science departments.]
Wickliffe Rose
#40. At the height of his popularity in 1977, Cat Stevens converted to Islam and dedicated his life to educational and philanthropic causes.
Shawn Amos
#41. 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
#42. We should never lose sight of the very close link between individual giving and the formation of philanthropic traditions.
Robert L. Payton
#43. Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.
Virginia Woolf
#44. The one thing the Victorians really believed in was philanthropy. I think we've forgotten the obligation to be philanthropic. I think we need smaller government, but I want to make it clear I'm not the Sarah Palin of the Cotswolds.
Susan Hill
#45. One thing I began to realize in my travels was that everyone I met who was truly successful - whether in business, in philanthropic work, in human rights, in government, or in raising a family - shared one common trait: they were fanatically passionate about the work they did.
Wes Moore
#46. I'm very involved in my business and with my family and my friends. I don't play the social world very much, and not to promote my product. I do it for the philanthropic problems because there I feel that I'm making a difference, and that I'm helping. So I do it in a soulful way.
Donna Karan
#47. If you can't distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldn't undertake philanthropic work.
Anton Chekhov
#48. The so-called Conservative, the conscientious, philanthropic Conservative, seeing this, and being surely convinced that such inequalities are of divine origin, tells himself that it is his duty to preserve them.
Anthony Trollope
#49. In general, however, these gentlemen, the reformers, legislators, and politicians, do not desire to exercise an immediate despotism over mankind. No, they are too moderate and too philanthropic for that. They only contend for the despotism, the absolutism, the omnipotence of the law.
Frederic Bastiat
#50. I am a professional performer and I only appear on TV for entertainment or for philanthropic organizations, and I consider this a very serious matter that doesn't fit into either category.
Lionel Stander
#52. 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
#53. I really enjoy my philanthropic work, traveling around the world and helping people in need. That's a lot of fun for me. It's really rewarding. You're helping people, but it's helping you, too. It puts life in perspective when you come back and you say, 'Man, it's raining again in Minnesota.'
Larry Fitzgerald
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. the philanthropic banker his brother-in-law, who predominated so much in the town that some called him a Methodist, others a hypocrite, according to the resources of their vocabulary;
George Eliot
#57. I always learned to be philanthropic ... to give back.
Charlotte Rae
#59. As our parents planted for us, so will we plant for our children. When Charlie and I began our philanthropic journey, we wanted to focus our resources on planting seeds that would help perpetuate Jewish values and traditions for future generations and also contribute to repairing our world.
Lynn Schusterman
#60. I don't think there's anything exceptional or noble in being philanthropic. It's the other attitude that confuses me.
Paul Newman
#61. I definitely got my philanthropic genes from my mom and dad. They taught me from a very early age to always lend a helping hand to anyone in need, and I hope to raise my daughter to be a very kind and charitable person.
Rebecca Gayheart
#62. When I work as a model, it feels like holiday. Doing a shoot is so light in a way that it's really a good break from being a mother or running a charitable organization and other philanthropic projects that I'm really passionate about.
Natalia Vodianova
#63. I have tried to hold my philanthropic passion to fashion, because I think this is very important, and I realize I need to delve even deeper into it.
Donna Karan
#64. Social activism has gone mainstream. A new generation of philanthropic leaders such as Bill and Melinda Gates, and Bono are providing inspiration, guidance, and billions of dollars through their global foundations.
Willow Bay
#65. Philanthropic leaders genially speak of complementing government, not competing with it as if monopoly were good and competition destructive-thus unwittingly conspiring against the public interest.
Richard Cornuelle
#66. New York is a great place to be if you want to make an impact and be involved in charities or philanthropic organizations like my wife and I are.
Justin Tuck
#67. We can walk when we want to, we can build many things, but if we do not witness to Jesus Christ then it doesn't matter. We might become a philanthropic NGO but we wouldn't be the Church, the Bride of the Lord.
Pope Francis
#68. I used to do some philanthropic work, but with the political platform, I can contribute in a bigger way.
Chiranjeevi
#69. I have drifted away from thinking about these philanthropic things. And it was only as the wealth got large enough and Melinda and I had talked about the view that wealth wasn't something that would be good to just pass to the children.
Bill Gates
#70. Discipline yourself to boil down your story/new business/philanthropic enterprise to a single page.
Steven Pressfield
#71. The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.
Jules Verne
#72. gimmicks. A closer look at the online school movement illustrates how tax dollars and philanthropic donations are being used to fuel huge windfalls in the private sector.
Linsey McGoey
#73. Philanthropic dollars are precious resources, so it's our responsibility to consider how we use them carefully. Yet few of us spend enough time doing so.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
#74. Exalt the Cross! God has hung the destiny of the race upon it. Other things we may do in the realm of ethics, and on the lines of philanthropic reforms; but our main duty converges into setting that one glorious beacon of salvation, Calvary's Cross, before the gaze of every immortal soul.
Theodore L. Cuyler
#75. Women's philanthropic leadership is fundamental to their advancement in society.
Kaye Ballard
#76. A philanthropic venture requires all the energy, knowledge and money from its founder that a company requires from the leadership team.
Romesh Wadhwani
#77. The truth of the matter is: you can create a great legacy, and inspire others, by giving it to philanthropic organizations.
Michael Bloomberg
#78. Anya Hindmarch is indeed a handbag designer; she has the requisite fabulous life, tasteful home, and loving husband. She is also beautiful and self-deprecating, and has five children aged 5 to 20 and a philanthropic bent which spans causes from cancer care to Britain's Conservative Party.
Kate Reardon
#79. Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. Much corporate giving is charitable in nature rather than philanthropic.
David Rockefeller
#83. Misers makes money their lord, but the spenders makes it their slaves and servants
Michael Bassey Johnson
