Giving and Fundraising Quotes
These giving and fundraising quotes remind us of the importance of charitable acts. Giving gives you back more than you imagine. The greatest minds think we are born to give, not just receive.
For many, no other sensation comes close to the gratification of giving.
Charity is great for the giver in many ways. It is beneficial for your consciousness and makes you feel better. It also makes you feel you are a contributor to the universe. In other words, you feel like being able to make a difference.
Whether you are a fundraiser or contributor, inspiration is one of the keys to taking that first step in charity. Here are some famous giving and fundraising quotes from people who have made a difference on this planet in different ways.
Charity, Fundraising, Giving Quotes
- Charity sees the need, not the cause.
German Proverb - The small charity that comes from the heart is better than the great charity that comes from the head.
Ivan Panin - Charity begins at home but should not end there.
Thomas Fuller - May your charity increase as much as your wealth
Proverb - It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.
Seneca, the Elder - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work; we are in.
Abraham Lincoln - There can be no Christianity where there is no charity.
Charles Caleb Colton - The charitable give out the door, and God puts it back through the window.
Proverb - No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens
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- Charity never humiliated him who profited from it nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery - The highest use of capital is not to make more money but to make money do more for the betterment of life.
Henry Ford - Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, and is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy and, as it were, his own executioner.
Sir Thomas Browne - I realized that my money would do vastly more good for others than it could for me and decided to make a commitment to donating to the most effective charities I could find.
Toby Ord
Giving Sayings
- It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.
Mother Teresa – More Mother Teresa quotes - Until we can receive with an open heart, we’re never really giving with an open heart. When we attach judgment to receiving help, we knowingly or unknowingly attach judgment to giving help.
Brené Brown - Giving is the master key to success in all applications of human life.
Bryant McGill - Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.
Roy T. Bennett - You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Kahlil Gibran - You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.
Amy Carmichael - The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving.
Albert Einstein - For it is in giving that we receive.
Francis of Assisi
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Have a Heart Quotes
- You give to yourself by giving of yourself.
Matt Kahn - The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
Lao Tzu - No one has ever become poor by giving.
Anne Frank - Give cheerfully and freely. It is the energy behind the giving that matters, so do not give grudgingly. The law of cause and effect guarantees that you shall receive plenty for what you give.
David Cameron Gikandi - The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them away.
Dorothy Day - The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
Pablo Picasso - When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.
Maya Angelou - You cannot afford to leave out giving in your life plan. You cannot afford to leave it to chance occurrence.
David Cameron Gikandi - You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself.
Harvey Firestone
Short Fundraising Quotes
- I don’t think you ever stop giving – I really don’t. I think it’s an ongoing process. And it’s not just about being able to write a check. It’s being able to touch somebody’s life.
Oprah Winfrey - Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege.
John D. Rockefeller Jr. - Most giving is 80% emotion and 20 % rational. And the best way to get to someone’s emotions is to tell a story.
Unknown - We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill - In good times and bad, we know that people give because you meet needs, not because you have needs.
Kay Sprinkel Grace - Donors don’t give to institutions. They invest in ideas and people in whom they believe.
G.T. Smith - If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.
Robert South
Inspiring Fundraising Quotes
- Fundraising is the gentle art of teaching the joy of giving.
Hank Rosso - It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than to watch it accumulate.
Gloria Steinem - The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.
Oscar Wilde - Giving is not just about making a donation. It is about making a difference.
Kathy Calvin - At the end of the day it’s not about what you have or even what you’ve accomplished… it’s about who you’ve lifted up, who you’ve made better. It’s about what you’ve given back.
Denzel Washington - Fundraisers are the catalysts of change.
Unknown - The secret to fundraising comes down to three magic words: before, more, and strategic.
Jay Samit - The most important thing is not to let fundraising get you down. Startups live or die on morale. If you let the difficulty of raising money to destroy your morale, it will become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Paul Graham - Giving to those in need will bring more joy than money could ever buy.
Dave Ramsey - When it comes to fundraising for a social enterprise, if you are pursuing your true passion, you’ll learn to become great at your craft because you’ll care so much about perfecting the skills necessary to make that dream a reality.
Adam Braun - Stewardship, at its best, engages donors with the impact and outcomes of their investments of time, wisdom, expertise, connections, and money.
Karen Osborne - Fundraisers should use pride, not apology when asking for a gift for a charity that is doing good work.
Henry Rosso
Better to Give Sayings
- You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
John Bunyan - Fundraising opportunities will continue to exist throughout the next century. Those opportunities will equal or exceed all current experience or presently held future expectations.
Edgar D. Powell - Neither liberal nor conservative politicians can resist the temptation to stand as mighty sequoias of rectitude amid the lowly underbrush of fundraising.
P. J. O’Rourke - We don’t work in the non-profit sector. We work in the for-change sector!
Unknown - Fundraising requires both optimism and realism. Without the first, few if any gift solicitation efforts would be made. Without the second, few, if any, would succeed.
Howard L. Jones - Fundraising is not an event; it is a process.
Edgar D. Powell - Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
Muhammad Ali - The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - We should never forget that no Fundraising effort ever succeeds unless one person asks another person for money.
Andrew D. Parker Jr. - Volunteers will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no volunteers.
Ken Wyman - Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Edmund Burke - Go out into the world and do good until there is too much good in the world.
Larry H. Miller
Giving And Fundraising Quotes
- The only thing that matters a damn is the donor experience.
Mark Phillips - Fundraising is not a right — it is a privilege, and we must always honor it as such.
Henry A. Rosso - Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.
Horace Mann - You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
John Bunyan - Volunteers do not necessarily have the time; they just have the heart.
Elizabeth Andrew - When we recognize that a better word for Fundraising is friend-raising, we open limitless doors to creativity in support of our causes.
Sue Vineyard - There are two ‘i’s’ in Fundraising – they should stand for inspiration and innovation, not imitation and irritation.
Ken Burnett - Help others without any reason and give without the expectation of receiving anything in return.
Roy T. Bennett
These sayings can motivate volunteers, donors, and staff in a fundraising campaign. Please include them in kick-off materials, emails, texts, letters, and cards to motivate and inspire your fundraising team.
Donation Quotations
- The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration but its donation.
Corrie Ten Boom - What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Albert Pike - My happiness comes from the donation of my life in many ways for the current and for future generations.
Debasish Mridha - What a privilege to be here on the planet to contribute your unique donation to humankind. Each face in the rainbow of colors that populate our world is precious and special.
Morris Dees - Good people are like candles – they burn themselves up to give light to others.
Unknown - If one only donates what is not of want, one will always have what is not of need.
Moon Tzu
Fundraising Quotes and Sayings
- Giving is not just about making a donation; it’s about making a difference.
Kathy Calvin - What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.
Nelson Mandela - As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way.
Mary Anne Radmacher - Every sunrise is an invitation for us to arise and brighten someone’s day.
Richelle E. Goodrich - Giving money effectively is almost as hard as earning it in the first place.
Bill Gates - Much is required from those to whom much is given.
Luke 12:48 - There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton - To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
Mother Theresa - No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Aesop - The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi
The Gift of Giving Insights
- If you want your checkbook to follow your heart, make a donation to those doing work you support.
Donna Brazile - Life isn’t just about the duration you spend, but by the donation of impact, you can pass out before you eventually pass out.
Seyi Ayoola - It does not matter how much we donate; it matters whether the donation is meaningful. How to define meaningful. Let society and history judge.
Ronnie Chan - Kindness is a language that the deaf can hear, and the blind can see.
Mark Twain – More Mark Twain quotes - I wanted to be sure that my donation did two things: went directly into the hands of hurricane victims, and that it was an amount that could really impact their lives and make a difference.
Dr. Dre - No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
Calvin Coolidge - Giving opens the way for receiving.
Florence Scovel
Volunteer Quotes
- The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi - I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
Maya Angelou - The most truly generous persons are those who give silently without hope of praise or reward.
Carol Ryrie Brink - If you need to raise funds from donors, you need to study them, respect them, and build everything you do around them.
Jeff Brooks - Always have a willing hand to help someone; you might be the only one that does.
Roy T. Bennett - The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
Nelson Henderson - 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’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.
Mother Teresa - Help one another. There’s no time like the present and no present like the time.
James Durst
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Michael O’Halloran founded Greeting Card Poet in 2014 and has worked as its publisher and editor ever since. He has co-authored four books on kids’ trivia and four on coaching. Previously, Michael was the president of Magnetic Poetry. He has invented and brought over 75 new gift and toy products to market, most of which deal with wordplay. Mike is married and a father of four daughters.
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