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More quotes about giving and philanthropy
I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more
serious and difficult task of wise distribution. -
Andrew Carnegie
Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion
live? If we were aware, we would want to help out, we'd want
to get involved.
- Bill Gates
The deed is everything, the glory naught. -
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
My father used to say, “You can spend a lot of time making money.
The tough time comes when you have to give it away
properly.” How to give something back, that’s the tough part
in life. -Lee
Iacocca
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true
happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but
through fidelity to a worthy purpose. -
Helen Keller
If you think of life as like a big pie, you can try to hold the
whole pie and kill yourself trying to keep it, or you can
slice it up and give some to the people around you, and you
still have plenty left for yourself.
- Jay Leno
There's no substitute for rolling up your sleeves and working
with the people who can make a difference. They get the
benefit of your participation and you gain a direct
understanding of the real problems and potential solutions,
which makes you a more informed giver. -
Michael Milken
I choose to rise up out of that storm and see that in moments of
desperation, fear, and helplessness, each of us can be a
rainbow of hope, doing what we can to extend ourselves in
kindness and grace to one another. And I know for sure that
there is no them.. there's only us. -
Oprah Winfrey
It is more blessed to give than to receive. -
Acts 20:35
I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the
soul of the giver.
Maya Angelou
To give away money is an easy matter and in any man's power. But
to decide to whom to give it and how large and when, and for
what purpose and how, is neither in every man power nor an
easy matter. -
Aristotle
The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its
helpless members. -
Pearl S. Buck
When you stop giving and offering something to the rest of the
world, it's time to turn out the lights. -
George Burns
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-
Winston Churchill
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself .-
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least
the equivalent of what he takes out of it. -
Albert Einstein
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of
another.-
Charles Dickens
How wonderful it is that nobody needs to wait a single moment
before starting to improve the world. -
Anne Frank
I would rather have it said, ‘He lived usefully,’ than, ‘He died
rich.’ -
Benjamin Franklin
If you want to change the world, be that change. -
Mohandas Gandhi
If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst
kind of heart trouble. -
Bob Hope
Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve. -Martin
Luther King, Jr.
A man’s true wealth is the good he does in this world. -
Mohammed
Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege. -
John D. Rockefeller
Do your givin' while you're livin'... then you'll be knowin'
where it's goin'. -
Ann Landers
Now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three. But the
greatest of these is charity. -
Apostle Paul, I Corinthians 13:13
One thing I know: The only ones among you who will be really
happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
-
Albert Schweitzer
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going
to get better. It’s not. -
Dr. Seuss, from The Lorax
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as
long as I live it
is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. -
George Bernard Shaw
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds
you plant. -
Robert Louis Stevenson
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. -
Mother Teresa
Deeds of giving are the very foundations of the world. -
The Torah
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