Philanthropy Quotes - Page 19

• True philanthropy requires a disruptive mindset, innovative thinking and a philosophy driven by entrepreneurial insights and creative opportunities.

  Naveen Jain

  Philosophy, Opportunity, Thinking

  "An Entrepreneurial Perspective on Philanthropy" by Naveen Jain, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 16, 2016.

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• I want to create the largest-ever participatory art project and highlight the concept of Shadow Philanthropy, where people help others create work without taking credit for it - through this we can really change the world.

  JR

  Art, Helping Others, People

  "Street artist's wish to change the world". "TEDTalk Tuesdays", www.cnn.com. June 19, 2011.

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• That cause is strong which has, not a multitude, but one strong man behind it.

  James Russell Lowell

  Strength, Strong, Men

  James Russell Lowell (1904). “Literary and political addresses”

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• Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Family, Happiness

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.29, Open Road Media

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• Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Imagination, Earth, Balloons

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.319

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• True salvation can come only to a person who renders service to the community.

  Yisroel Salanter

  Community, Salvation, Persons

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• One must know not just how to accept a gift, but with what grace to share it.

  Maya Angelou

  Christmas, Thank You, Karma

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• I think philanthropy is also growing and catching on. Figuring out how the philanthropy sector, which is quite small compared to the private sector, which is the biggest by far, and then the governments, you know, even in these poor countries over time has to take on these key responsibilities. How does philanthropy accelerate that? Drive the kind of innovations, make sure they get used well. So it plays this kind of special role.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Responsibility, Thinking

  Source: www.ctvnews.ca

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• Society can't wait. It's sad there are so many entrepreneurs, business successes and venture capitalists who give no thought to society.

  Les Wexner

  Giving, Entrepreneur, Waiting

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• We are seeing smarter philanthropy, more philanthropy, and that's true world wide. So it's kind of a movement that has a lot of accomplishments, even though as a percentage of the economy, it's still only a few per cent.

  Bill Gates

  Accomplishment, Movement, World

  Source: www.ctvnews.ca

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• In the philanthropy game, you're going for different outcomes: saving childhood lives, having kids grow up - because they don't have malnutrition or disease - that they achieve their full potential. We take for Warren [Buffett] things that, because he's very intelligent about the world but doesn't get to go out in Africa and see what we see, we've taken and say to him where we stand and it's basically a very positive report that his gift has made a phenomenal difference.

  Bill Gates

  Growing Up, Taken, Kids

  Source: www.geekwire.com

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• Social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty.

  Jane Addams

  Doe, Charity, Moral

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.227, Courier Corporation

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• This [philanthropy] work is even more fascinating. It requires us to think harder about how we build partnerships, who we get behind. And yet we get to see progress that in some ways is even more profound than the great advances that digital technology has provided.

  Bill Gates

  Technology, Thinking, Profound

  Source: www.ctvnews.ca

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• I know rappers who are grandparents and we still haven't conquered politics, social development, philanthropy and these are areas, as we become our parents and grandparents, that we need to hold the torch of what makes the world run and what makes communities better.

  Rhymefest

  Running, Rapper, Grandparent

  Source: chicagoist.com

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• A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage.

  William Blake

  Animal, Heaven, Humanity

  "Auguries of Innocence" l. 5 (ca. 1803)

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• The most important thing the giant philanthropies could do - Gates, Rockefeller, Ford, Open Society Institute, and new ones emerging - would be to create a $2-to-$3 billion Trust for Independent Journalism. They wouldn't miss the money, and democracy would still have a fighting chance because of their investment.

  Bill Moyers

  Independent, Fighting, Missing

  Source: progressive.org

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• If you think of global public goods like polio eradication, the kind of risk-taking new approach, philanthropy really does have a role to play there, because government doesn't do R&D about new things naturally as much as it probably should, and so philanthropy's there.

  Bill Gates

  Thinking, Government, Play

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• The kind uncles and aunts of the race are more esteemed than its true spiritual fathers and mothers.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mother, Spiritual, Uncles

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.194, Penguin

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• I've always been a dreamer...or let's just say I kept my options open. In my heart, I knew singing was gonna be in my future, but I considered psychology, hairdressing, banking, teaching, acting, modeling, aviation, and philanthropy. I just didn't know I'd pretty much be doing all of these things eventually!

  Rihanna

  Teaching, Heart, Psychology

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel nor man come in danger by it.

  Francis Bacon

  Life, Fall, Angel

  Francis Bacon (2016). “Essays”, p.32, Jazzybee Verlag

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• We live in an interdependent world. Every time you cut off somebody else's opportunities, you shrink your own horizons.

  William J. Clinton

  Cutting, Opportunity, Horizon

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• The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Cat, Sacrifice, Animal

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.90, Courier Corporation

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• Humanity, in the aggregate, is progressing, and philanthropy looks forward hopefully.

  Hosea Ballou

  Humanity, Progress, Looks

  "Edge-Tools of Speech". Book by Maturin M. Ballou, 1886.

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• Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself; but do not relinquish it simply because someone else is not sure of you.

  Stewart Edward White

  Life, Motivational, Confidence

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• Whatever expenditure is sanctioned - even when it is sanctioned against the ministry's wish - the ministry must find the money. Accordingly, they have the strongest motive to oppose extra outlay. The ministry is (so to speak) the breadwinner of the political family, and has to meet the cost of philanthropy and glory; just as the head of a family has to pay for the charities of his wife and the toilette of his daughters.

  Walter Bagehot

  Daughter, Wife, Political

  "The English Constitution". Book by Walter Bagehot, Seventh edition. Chapter 5: "The House of Commons", p. 137, en.wikisource.org. 1894.

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