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  • 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.

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

  • I'm very involved in my business and with my family and my friends. I don't play the social world very much, and not to promote my product. I do it for the philanthropic problems because there I feel that I'm making a difference, and that I'm helping. So I do it in a soulful way.

    "Donna Karan on Meditation, Fashion - and Love". Interview with Mayu Saini, wwd.com. March 28, 2016.
  • You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

  • People can make symbolic gestures but doesn't mean their life changes. One philanthropic moment doesn't make a life of renewal; of change.

    Source: www.compulsivereader.com
  • Scatter plenty o'er a smiling land.

    Thomas Gray (1828). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray: With an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author”, p.64
  • I don't think there's anything exceptional or noble in being philanthropic. It's the other attitude that confuses me.

    "Paul Newman's Road To Glory". Interview with Paul Fischer, Film Monthly, July 1, 2002.
  • With a generation of younger folks who have thrived on the success of their companies, there is a big opportunity for many of us to give back earlier in our lifetime and see the impact of our philanthropic efforts.

    "Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg signs up for Giving Pledge" by Dominic Rushe, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2010.
  • It never was our guise to slight the poor, or aught humane despise.

    Homer (1811). “The Odyssey of Homer, translated by Alexander Pope”, p.274
  • We live in an interdependent world. Every time you cut off somebody else's opportunities, you shrink your own horizons.

  • The resources you happen to accumulate, what do you do with them? You can spend the money and buy some houses or whatever, and people do some of that and that's fine. You can give the money to other people, your family, but usually when you do that you screw them up and it ends up counterproductive. Or, you take those resources and reinvest them in things that you believe in, and that could be reinvesting in a philanthropic cause.

    Believe   People   Giving  
  • Do all the good you can, by all the means you can.

    'Rule of Conduct' in 'Letters' (1915)
  • It's more blessed to give than to receive - especially kittens.

    Bible   Jesus   Blessed  
  • A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

    Benjamin Franklin (2010). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Penn Reading Project Edition”, p.11, University of Pennsylvania Press
  • When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

    Quoted in Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor: The Years Alone (1972)
  • If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

    Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961
  • Mankind — the race would perish did they cease to aid each other.

    "Tales of My Landlord: With the Author's Last Notes and Additions and a Glossary".
  • If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

  • I think musicians and artists are the most philanthropic people I know. Their charity record of the music business would hold up to the work of anybody.

  • If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

  • There is a natural law, a Divine law, that obliges you and me to relieve the suffering, the distressed and the destitute.

  • No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

    Calvin Coolidge (1920). “Law and Order”
  • Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, himself, his hungering neighbor and me.

    Giving   Three   Charity  
    James Russell Lowell (2012). “The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell, With a Biographical Sketch and Notes, a Portrait and Other Illustrations”, p.46, tredition
  • The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

    Life   Power   Men  
  • 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.

    Trust   Uplifting   Ideas  
    Woodrow Wilson (1956). “A Crossroads of Freedom: The 1912 Campaign Speeches”
  • When I work as a model, it feels like holiday. Doing a shoot is so light in a way that it's really a good break from being a mother or running a charitable organization and other philanthropic projects that I'm really passionate about.

    Source: www.harpersbazaar.com
  • No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

    "Our Mutual Friend". Book by harles Dickens, 1865.
  • A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

    "De Beneficiis" by Seneca the Younger, I. 6, 63 AD.
  • An attitude of gratitude creates blessings. Help yourself by helping others. You have the most powerful weapons on earth - love and prayer.

    Love   Gratitude   Prayer  
  • 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.

    Life   Money   Father  
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