Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Philanthropy

• To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Success

• Self sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Sacrifice, Self

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.127, Harvard University Press

• Almost every man we meet requires some civility; requires to be humored; - he has some fame, some talent, some whim of religion or philanthropy in his head that is not to be questioned, and which spoils all conversation with him. But a friend is a sane man who exercises not my ingenuity, but me.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Exercise, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.65, 谷月社

• All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Power, Historical, Minorities

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2001). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1843 - 1871”, p.315, University of Georgia Press

• The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Charity, Philanthropy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.132, Harvard University Press

• Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Air, Charity, Philanthropy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.203, Library of America

• When we see a special reformer we feel like asking him, What right have you, sir, to your own virtue? Is virtue piecemeal?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Special, Asking, Philanthropy

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