Quotes about Philanthropy
I spent the first half of my life making money and the second half of my life giving it away to do the most good and the least harm.
— Andrew Carnegie
I don't believe in giving people money. In Sunday school [you learn] that if you teach a man to fish, you feed him for life; but you give him a fish, you feed him for a day.
— Robert Kiyosaki
I can see being kind to people, but I don't think giving them money solves the problem. I think it makes the problem worse and it prolongs the ultimate, inevitable end anyway.
— Robert Kiyosaki
May the time come when rich men and great men would think it an honor to support whole stations of missionaries in Africa, instead of spending their money on hounds and horses.
— David Livingstone
Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
— St. Jerome
Looking at these issues as a businessman, I believe that investing in the world's poorest people is the smartest way that our government spends money.
— Bill Gates
I don't want to make money; I want to make a difference.
— Lady Gaga
The fact that you are giving money to charity does not mean that you need not try to find out whether that charity is a fraud or not.
— CS Lewis
Helping raise money for kids - there's nothing better than that.
— Tim Tebow
Be sure that you give the poor the aid they most need, though it be your example which leaves them far behind. If you give money, spend yourself with it, and do not merely abandon it to them.
— Henry David Thoreau
Charity is the form, mover, mother and root of all the virtues.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Nothing teaches character better than generosity.
— Jim Rohn