Philanthropy Quotes - Page 8

• I realize there are few sectors that can do what philanthropy does, which is look at big problems, take a long term view, try to develop strategies for addressing the root causes and then go about solving them.

  Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey

  Views, Roots, Long

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• What really matters is what you do with what you have.

  H. G. Wells

  Motivational, Attitude, Cancer

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Ignorance, Responsibility, Fundamentals

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• Women's philanthropic leadership is fundamental to their advancement in society.

  Kaye Ballard

  Advancement, Fundamentals, Philanthropic

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• Charity begins at home.

  Terence

  Life, Home, Charity

  Terence (1767). “Terence's Comedies: Translated Into English Prose, as Near as the Propriety of the Two Languages Will Admit; Together with the Original Latin from the Best Editions ... with Notes Pointing Out the Connexion of the Several Scenes, and an Index Critical and Phraseological ...”, p.80

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• I think the great livers, the people who are fully self-actualizing and alive, are the great givers.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Life, Greatness, Thinking

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• I believe that each of us-no matter what our age or background or walk of life-each of us has something to contribute to the life of this nation.

  Michelle Obama

  Believe, African American, Age

  Democratic National Convention speech, 2008.

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• Pure philanthropy is very well in its way but philanthropy plus five percent is a good deal better.

  Cecil Rhodes

  Way, Plus, Wells

  "Voices of Indian Freedom Movement". Book by J. C. Johari, Anmol Publications, p. 207, 1993.

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• A tiny portion of the population controls the lions share of the wealth and most of the command positions of state, manufacturing, banking, investment, publishing, higher education, philanthropy, and media... these individuals exercise a preponderant influence over what is passed off as public information and democratic discourse.

  Michael Parenti

  Exercise, Media, Banking

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• Give thanks. Appreciate what you DO have ... the more we give thanks, the more we receive to be thankful for. Gratitude is the gift that always gives back.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Gratitude, Appreciate, Giving

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• There isn't any question that Hollywood is profit driven. Anybody that thinks it isn't is a fool. It's a business. Hollywood was never philanthropy. The only purpose it had was making money; the only purpose it still has is to make money.

  Sydney Pollack

  Thinking, Hollywood, Purpose

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• In countries where people have to flee their homes because of persecution and violence, political solutions must be found, peace and tolerance restored, so that refugees can return home. In my experience, going home is the deepest wish of most refugees.

  Angelina Jolie

  Country, Home, People

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• 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

  Men, Class, Good Man

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• It is a privilege to serve people, a privilege that must be earned, and once earned, there is an obligation to do something good with it.

  Barbara Jordan

  People, Privilege, Obligation

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• Philanthropy has always been something that I've been kind of interested in because I think it was instilled at a very young age through my parents.

  Serinda Swan

  Thinking, Parent, Age

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• If there is one word that describes our form of society in America, it may be the word-voluntary.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  America, Giving, May

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• Today, philanthropy is a very unsophisticated, old world process where people who make a shitload of money go and give it away and when they're making their money, they're focused on 10x, 100x returns on the dollar.

  Peter Diamandis

  People, Giving, Dollars

  Big Think Interview With Peter Diamandis, bigthink.com.

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• Mark Zuckerberg recently announced that he will donate $45 billion of his wealth to philanthropy. Two years ago, my husband and I decided to endow $100 million to set up the SOHO China Scholars. This program will give financial aid to Chinese students so they can attend the best universities in the world.

  Zhang Xin

  Husband, Years, Zuckerberg

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Feelings, Charity, Misery

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• To regard states of distress in general as an objection, as something which must be abolished is the greatest nonsense on earth; having the most disastrous consequences, fatally stupid- almost as stupid as a wish to abolish bad weather - out of pity for the poor.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Stupid, Weather, Wish

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What”, p.89, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• One of my goals is to reinvent philanthropy.

  Peter Diamandis

  Goal

  Interview with Paul Hoffman, bigthink.com. January 26, 2010.

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• Politics is social work with power.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Social Work, Social

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• If we make sacrifices in doing good or in doing ill, it does not alter the ultimate value of our actions; even if we stake our life in the cause, as martyrs do for the sake of our church : it is a sacrifice to our longing for power, or for the purpose of conserving our sense of power.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sacrifice, Church, Doe

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “The Gay Science”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• We all start out with no discipline, no patience, no perseverance, no determination. We all start out at zero. People say, 'You have talent.' No, the gift is to realize that we all start out even. Whether we messed up or put our best foot forward, with these four qualities, we take care of our mental, physical and spiritual health each day. Am I the best in the world? No. The question is: Am I the best I can be?

  Edward James Olmos

  Spiritual, Perseverance, Determination

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• Living truth is that alone which has its origins in thinking. Just as a tree bears year after year the same fruit which is each year new, so must all permanently valuable ideas be continually born again in thought.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Thinking, Years, Ideas

  Albert Schweitzer (1949). “Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography”, New York : H. Holt

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