Philanthropy Quotes - Page 21

• The men and women who have the right ideals . . . are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Life, Courage, Spring

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.76, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Philanthropy can take the risks that others cannot or will not.

  Judith Rodin

  Risk

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• I regard philanthropy as a tragic apology for wrong conditions under which human beings live.

  Helen Keller

  Apology, Charity, Tragic

  Helen Keller, Kim E. Nielsen (2005). “Helen Keller: Selected Writings”, p.232, NYU Press

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• fashion has always been a little slow in accommodating large women. ... We're not asking for philanthropy here. Wake up, we're fat, we like nice clothes, and we've got cash.

  Camryn Manheim

  Fashion, Nice, Clothes

  Camryn Manheim (1999). “Wake Up, I'm Fat!”, Broadway

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• John Marks Templeton has achieved exemplary success in both business and philanthropy. For Looking Forward he has assembled a diverse and remarkable group of experts in their fields-including the environment, medicine, the physical sciences, religion, the family, and international relations-and contributed two stellar pieces as well. Together these essays dispel fashionable pessimism and show how the world can progress-and is progressing-toward a better future.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Medicine, Two, Together

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• Whatever we give to the wretched, we lend to fortune.

  Seneca the Younger

  Giving, Charity, Fortune

  "Troades", 697 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 595-596), 1922.

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• Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Office, Done, Charity

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• When wealth is centralized, the people are dispersed. When wealth is distributed, the people are brought together.

  Confucius

  Inspiring, Karma, People

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• Don't just put it off and think about it!

  Horace

  Thinking, Charity, Philanthropic

  Daniel H. Garrison, Horace (1998). “Horace: Epodes and Odes”, p.335, University of Oklahoma Press

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• What the poor need is not charity but capital, not caseworkers but coworkers. And what the rich need is a wise, honorable and just way of divesting themselves of their overabundance.

  Clarence Jordan

  Wise, Money, Differences

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• Being kind to others is a way of being good to yourself.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Charity, Way, Be Kind

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• There is no cause half so sacred as the cause of the people. There is no idea so uplifting as the idea of the service of humanity.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Trust, Uplifting, Ideas

  Woodrow Wilson (1956). “A Crossroads of Freedom: The 1912 Campaign Speeches”

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• The Americans make associations to give entertainment, to found seminaries, to build inns, to construct churches, to diffuse books, to send missionaries to the antipodes; in this manner, they found hospitals, prisons and schools.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Book, School, Giving

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• He who gives only what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.

  Henry Taylor

  Sacrifice, Self, Essence

  Henry Taylor (1853). “Notes from Life in Seven Essays”, p.13

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• Generosity is the flower of justice.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Inspirational, Flower, Generosity

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Julian Hawthorne (2015). “Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.410, e-artnow

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• I'm on a lot of nonprofit boards, but if I didn't enjoy it I wouldn't do it. I haven't yet done anything that's transformational in philanthropy. But I hope at some point to target two or three causes or organizations and really make transformational gifts.

  David Rubenstein

  Organization, Two, Causes

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• Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-caluculated less or more.

  William Wordsworth

  Generosity, Giving, Heaven

  William Wordsworth, “Inside Of King's College Chapel, Cambridge”

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• In business, we say that people overestimate what you can do in a year and underestimate what you can do in a decade. This is true in philanthropy as well.

  Marc Benioff

  Years, People, Underestimate

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• Many things in life inspire philanthropy, such as your faith in humanity and your belief in the human spirit to overcome.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Things In Life, Inspire, Humanity

  "Online Extra: A Talk with Oprah Winfrey". Interview with Michelle Conlin, www.bloomberg.com. November 29, 2004.

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• I have failed a lot in my philanthropy, where I will make philanthropic contributions and they just won't be effective.

  Marc Benioff

  Contribution, Philanthropic

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• To have people from every continent who are working on philanthropy, on social entrepreneurship, gives me a unique opportunity to engage.

  Darren Walker

  Unique, Opportunity, People

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• Bill Gates has become the patron saint of philanthropy and the poster child of rebirth, and from what I can tell, rightly so.

  John Battelle

  Children, Saint, Bills

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• One of the main lessons I have learned during my five years as Secretary-General is that broad partnerships are the key to solving broad challenges. When governments, the United Nations, businesses, philanthropies and civil society work hand-in-hand, we can achieve great things.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Keys, Government, Hands

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• God never estimates what we give from impulse. We are given credit for what we determine in our hearts to give; for the giving that is governed by a fixed determination. The Spirit of God revolutionises our philanthropic instincts. Much of our philanthropy is simply the impulse to save ourselves an uncomfortable feeling. The Spirit of God alters all that. As saints our attitude towards giving is that we give for Jesus Christ's sake, and from no other motive.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Determination, Attitude

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.148, Discovery House

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• 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, Virtue

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