Philanthropy Quotes - Page 10

• Without a love of humankind there is no love of God.

  Sholem Asch

  God Love, Humankind, No Love

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• Philanthropy, charity, giving voluntarily and freely... call it what you like, but it is truly a jewel of an American tradition.

  John F. Kennedy

  Jewels, Giving, Charity

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• The good-they cannot create; they are always the beginning of the end.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Charity, Selflessness, Disinterest

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What”, p.90, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• By its very definition, civic responsibility means taking a healthy role in the life of one's community. That means that classroom lessons should be complemented by work outside the classroom. Service-learning does just that, tying community service to academic learning.

  John Glenn

  Mean, Responsibility, Work Out

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• What if the healing of the world utterly depends on the ten-thousand invisible kindnesses we offer simply and quietly throughout the pilgrimage of each human life?

  Wayne Muller

  Kindness, Healing, What If

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• One of the greatest things you have in life is that no one has the authority to tell you what you want to be. You're the one who'll decide what you want to be. Respect yourself and respect the integrity of others as well. The greatest thing you have is your self image, a positive opinion of yourself. You must never let anyone take it from you.

  Jaime Escalante

  Integrity, Self, Want

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• I offered up a special prayer, a prayer which came with tears and anguish, that some way would open up for me to use what talents I possessed for my fellow workers, for the poor.

  Dorothy Day

  Prayer, Giving, Special

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• Don't let people tell you to do it this way. You are on the verge of figuring out hybrid models -- with companies and nonprofits, markets, government, crowd-sourced philanthropy. The capitalist system as we know it is not working.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Government, People, Crowds

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• If you're outraged at conditions, then you can't possibly be free or happy until you devote all your time to changing them and do nothing but that. But you can't change anything if you want to hold onto a good job, a good way of life and avoid sacrifice.

  Cesar Chavez

  Jobs, Sacrifice, Want

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• I was encouraged to break all the rules but to take the best of philanthropy, the best of investing, and the best of development finance, and experiment with new ways to create this venture capital model of using philanthropy to back patient capital investments, and then build solutions that were measured in terms of the kind of impact and change they were making on people's lives and in the world, not just on the financial return.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Impact, People, Development

  "The Marriage of Love & Power: Conversation w/ Jacqueline Novogratz of Acumen Fund". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 1, 2013.

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• When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them.

  Willa Cather

  Kindness, People, Moments

  My Mortal Enemy pt. 1, ch. 6 (1926)

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• The only role other than paying their taxes, whatever those are, the only role for philanthropy broadly - of which the rich should give disproportionately - the more, the better - and I think there is a positive trend in that direction - there are certain risk-taking things, like trying out a new type of charter school or funding a new kind of medicine.

  Bill Gates

  School, Thinking, Medicine

  "THE BILL GATES INTERVIEW: An energy miracle is coming, and it's going to change the world". Interview with Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2016.

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• We can find meaning and reward by serving some higher purpose than ourselves, a shining purpose, the illumination of a Thousand Points of Light...We all have something to give.

  George H. W. Bush

  Light, Illumination, Giving

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• here are economies like China's economy where it's less than a tenth [of a percent] today, although it is growing, is quite small, because of the notion that the government takes care of everything, and Europe and China, philanthropy has not been nearly of the same scale.

  Bill Gates

  Government, Europe, Growing

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• You want to be paid as well, you virtuous! You want reward for virtue, and heaven for earth, and eternity for your today?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heaven, Charity, Earth

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• Kindness is about energy we give and take from all creatures. The bottom line is the integrative interaction and the total interconnectedness between human beings, all creatures, and God. Kindness is a spirituality of solid truth, not shifting emotion; of justice, not occasional philanthropy; of genuine love, not sentimentality or masochism; of evolved adults, not fixated infants.

  Jean Maalouf

  Kindness, Genuine Love, Justice

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• I confess that I have hitherto indulged very little in philanthropic enterprises.... While my townsmen and women are devoted in somany ways to the good of their fellows, I trust that one at least may be spared to other and less humane pursuits. You must have a genius for charity as well as for anything else. As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Genius, Charity, May

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• 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

  Sympathy, Grief, Bravery

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.122

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• Our age is pre-eminently the age of sympathy, as the eighteenth century was the age of reason. Our ideal men and women are they, whose sympathies have had the widest culture, whose aims do not end with self, whose philanthropy, though centrifugal, reaches around the globe.

  Frances E. Willard

  Sympathy, Men, Self

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• 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

  Want, Flow, Innocent

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• Mark Zuckerberg will be a hero to many young entrepreneurs 20 years from now. Bill Gates will be a hero to others, and they will look to those [people] like I read books when I was in my teens about Rockefeller or Carnegie.

  Warren Buffett

  Book, Hero, Young Entrepreneurs

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• On his Giving Pledge philanthropy: The way I got the message out was to get a copy of FORBES, look down that 400 list and start making phone calls! Bill and Melinda [Gates] did the same thing. So keep publishing
  the list so I can milk it.

  Warren Buffett

  Phones, Giving, Way

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• ... 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

  Writing, Self, Long

  Ruth Benedict (2017). “An Anthropologist at Work”, p.138, Routledge

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• I think Christians should be leaders in art, science, philanthropy, charity, and all kinds of good works. We should be good examples for everyone. Unfortunately though, that's not often the case.

  Matt Smith

  Christian, Art, Thinking

  Source: www.angelicwarlord.com

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• I think that's an obligation you have, to give back no matter what happens. It actually ends up being easier when you're young than when you become successful. Suddenly you realize you've gone into a whole other realm of philanthropy, from just being a volunteer to being this person that dedicates buildings and saves lots of children in some faraway place.

  George Lucas

  Children, Successful, Thinking

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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