Besides his creative versatility, Anton Rupert will be remembered as a visionary, a creator of ideas, a product innovator, a philanthropist as well as a leader by the example he set.
Quotes about philanthropist (16 Quotes)
Princess Diana was a wonderful, caring philanthropist. She would come sometimes into the church and sit at the back and pray.
Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.
If the graves of the thousands of victims who have fallen in the terrible wars of the two races had been placed in line the philanthropist might travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, and be constantly in sight of green mounds.
Bert is truly the Renaissance man. He's been a successful businessman. He's been very active in community affairs. He is a generous philanthropist and he's a wonderful family man. He does it all in a quiet, unassuming way.
I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer, as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual, the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.
Angelina Jolie embodies so many qualities of what St. John represents. She is strong, independent and dynamic. She's a mother, actress and a philanthropist.
Rambo isn't violent. I see Rambo as a philanthropist.
The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist
I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.
Andrea Bronfman was a pillar of her family and the entire Jewish community. She was an activist as well as a philanthropist.
To be fair, he has a personal history of charitable works like this, so it's not as if this is some person making a desperate effort to rehabilitate his career by suddenly reshaping himself as a philanthropist. The problem is we live in such a cynical age that it really doesn't matter what his intentions are this will be viewed in cynical terms.
PHILANTHROPIST, n. A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.
He's a real estate guy from Detroit. He's a black man who is a big-time philanthropist who does a lot with Optimist Clubs and churches. He's a real neat guy.
RESTITUTOR, n. Benefactor philanthropist.
The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.