If you want to change the world, be that change.

- Mohandas Gandhi

Do your givin' while you're livin'... then you'll be knowin' where it's goin'.

- Ann Landers

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

- Jack London

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

- Margaret Mead

A man there was, though some did count him mad,

The more he cast away, the more he had.

- John Bunyan

Life begets life. Energy becomes energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.


- Sarah Bernhardt

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.


- Henry Ward Beecher

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

- Maya Angelou

The desire for power in excess caused angels to fall; the desire for knowledge in excess caused man to fall; but in charity is no excess, neither can man or angels come into danger by it.


- Sir Francis Bacon

It is more blessed to give than to receive.


Acts 20:35

Earlier in this century, philanthropy often flowed from the wills of dead industrialists. In recent decades, it's as likely to have come from a very alive business leader, entertainer, artist or sports star. The most effective of these patrons begin the process of giving by asking what they care about passionately.


- Michael Milken

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

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.


- Andrew Carnegie

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

It's more rewarding to watch money change the world than accumulate.

- Gloria Steinem