Quotes about Philanthropy
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Charity is fortune, avarice is poverty, peace is treasure, and happiness is wealth.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Helping yourself is common sense, helping others is virtue, helping yourself and others is enlightenment.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
To love is to will the good of the other.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead.
— Mother Teresa
God does not need to receive, but humans need to give. Why A Students Work for C Students
— Robert Kiyosaki
Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.
— Og Mandino
The value of a life is always measured by how much of it is given away.
— Andy Stanley
The measure of your life will not be in what you accumulate, but in what you give away.
— Wayne Dyer
True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
— Tertullian