Top 894 Charitable Foundations Quotes & Sayings

I think what I really want to do [is] do something charitable.

There's always peripheral things that you like that you don't know, but starting with whatever his British influences are, are some of my favourite artists, and the American things are what I grew up on as well. In the end, for me, it's those foundations of the music business - those things that are a lot of the foundations of what music today is. You can hear a bit of all of those things that we talk about in almost all music today.

There is something fundamentally antidemocratic about relinquishing control of the public education policy agenda to private foundations run by society's wealthiest people; when the wealthiest of these foundations are joined in common purpose, they represent an unusually powerful force that is beyond the reach of democratic institutions.

He is rich who hath enough to be charitable.

I have always seen the Clinton Foundation - yes, they do a lot of charitable good works. But by my lights, the charitable good works were a cost center like the electric bill. The reason why the foundation exists wasn't to do good work. It was to serve as sort of a place to park lugubrious sycophants like Sidney Blumenthal and other henchman, a place to serve as a super PAC, a place park her campaign while they were a government in exile

An atheist can be charitable but not religious. But the religious man must be charitable.

Generosity is more charitable than wealth.

When one considers our nation's educational foundations - Harvard, Yale, Princeton and most of our respected institutions were originally Christian - it becomes evident why we, as Christians, maintain a passion about remaining true to the foundations of Scripture.

Much corporate giving is charitable in nature rather than philanthropic.

Charitable giving in the United States has remained at 2% of GDP since 1970.

There is precious little that's charitable about the world of charity.

Charity is commendable; everyone should be charitable. But justice aims to create a social order in which, if individuals choose not to be charitable, people still don't go hungry, unschooled or sick without care. Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance.

I started covering Trump's charitable giving sort of by accident.

We need global tax justice, not charitable scraps dictated by the fancies of the elite.

My grandmother was a very charitable woman, and my mother grew up that way.

I did my masters in elementary particles. But the foundations of elementary particles is quantum theory and there were too many conceptual problems around quantum theory that I couldn't live with. So I decided I was going to work on the foundations of quantum theory. That's what I did my Ph.D on.

The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window.

The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.

The heart of a girl is like a convent--the holier the cloister, the more charitable the door.

When the jury came in, it didn't just disappoint me it shook the foundations of my beliefs, it shook the foundations of my beliefs in the justice system, in human beings, in my abilities and judgement and in my sense of reality. It just blew me away emotionally and psychologically.

Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature.

Less than ten cents on the dollar in the Clinton Foundation has gone to charitable causes.

No light privilege is it to have a hand in building up the moral life of these new communities; no common honour surely to help to lay side by side with the foundations of their free political institutions the broad and deep foundations of the Church of God.

Science is wonderful at destroying metaphysical answers, but incapable of providing substitute ones. Science takes away foundations without providing a replacement. Whether we want to be there or not, science has put us in the position of having to live without foundations. It was shocking when Nietzsche said this, but today it is commonplace; our historical position-and no end to it is in sight-is that of having to philosophise without 'foundations'.

The breeder can indeed lay the foundations of a good and serviceable dog but the trainer must see to it that he brings to their highest possible development, the physical and mental foundations already laid and thus his is the more grateful task.

You are right in speaking of the moral foundations of science, but you cannot turn around and speak of the scientific foundations of morality.

Truth is not a virtue, but a passion. It is never charitable.

Scripts are what matter. If you get the foundations right and then you get the right ingredients on top, you stand a shot... but if you get those foundations wrong, then you absolutely don't stand a shot. It's very rare-almost never-that a good film gets made from a bad screenplay.

Philosophers get attention only when they appear to be doing something sinister - corrupting the youth, undermining the foundations of civilization, sneering at all we hold dear. The rest of the time everybody assumes that they are hard at work somewhere down in the sub-basement, keeping those foundations in good repair. Nobody much cares what brand of intellectual duct tape is being used.

Be Charitable before wealth make thee covetous, and loose not the glory of the Mite.

Behold how Christ is the foundation of the church and the apostles are the foundations! Christ is by a figure of speech - antonomastice - the foundation because the edifice of the church begins from him and is finished in him and through him. But the prophets and apostles are the foundations because their authority bears up our weakness.

Great ideas are not charitable.

Religious organisations have an automatic tax-free charitable status.

Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.

I support most charitable organizations.

My dad provided me with a great way of life, and he was very charitable man.

My life is so filled with my children, my family, and the charitable work I do.

Be loyal to yourself, charitable to neighbours, nothing more.

I always wanted to work in charitable things, community outreach, etc.

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

The size of the federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern.

I can't count a single conservative of my acquaintance that doesn't include charitable work in their list of priorities.

It is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable.

I decided to leave most of my wealth to my charitable foundation, which is not to be confused with my charity. My charity helps children directly. The charitable foundation will receive most of my legacy when I die.

It’s a beautiful, distinctive art, and shoes are like the foundations. If the foundations aren’t right, the building won’t stand upright, and if a woman’s balance isn’t right, nothing else is.

Many entrepreneurs embrace profit-making and charitable purposes. Companies such as shoes seller Toms and eyeglass firm Warby Parker sell products at a profit with a pledge to devote part of their earnings to the needy. The number of for-profit businesses with a built-in charitable dimension has proliferated.

I'm forming a charitable institution for education.

It is not my experience that life’s difficulties make people more charitable.

For scientific researchers, charitable donations are enormous engines of new opportunities.

I consider what I do on Deadspin to be based in the foundations of journalism, yes, based on the foundations of journalism that I have been trained and that I certainly use when I write for GQ and The New York Times and so on. Certainly, I think the language can be a little looser on the web, but I am held to the same standards and accuracy everyone else is.

The invitation for artists to compete to see who can be the most charitable is a wonderful thing.

The willingness to share does not make one charitable; it makes one free.

Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.

Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.

I've been donating all the money I earn from the TV shows to a charitable trust.

I think, charitable foundations are, in general, a good thing.

The charitable say in effect, 'I seem to have more than I need and you seem to have less than you need. I would like to share my excess with you.' Fine, if my excess is tangible, money or goods, and fine if not, for I learned that to be charitable with gestures and words can bring enormous joy and repair injured feelings.

Broad, wholesome, charitable views .. can not be acquired by vegetating in one's little corner of the earth.

I think more and more foundations are putting resources into food activism. But I think that given the state of the economy, foundations won't be giving as much in general. For me it's about working with these existing institutions in communities that people already go to, that people trust, that they know, and determining how best they can play a role in the creation of local food systems and address the ills that are right around them in the community.

My brother and I made a pact that every deal we do has to have a charitable component; otherwise, we don't do it.