“What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.”
– Albert Pike

“It is every man’s obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.”
– Albert Einstein

“Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind. Nay, it is overrated; and it is our selfishness which overrates it.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.”
– Maya Angelou

“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have too much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”
– Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“How wonderful that no one need wait a single moment to improve the world.”
– Anne Frank