Fundraising Sayings and Quotes
Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old fundraising quotes, fundraising sayings, and fundraising proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.
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Wealth is not to feed our egos but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves.
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We should never forget that no fundraising effort ever succeeds unless one person asks another person for money.
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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
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If you need to raise funds from donors, you need to study them, respect them, and build everything you do around them.
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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 destroy your morale, it will become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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You give but little when you give of your possessions.It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
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Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity.
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To give away money is an easy matter and in any man’s power. But to decide to whom to give it and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man’s power nor an easy matter.
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It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life that no person can sincerely try to help another without helping themselves.
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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.
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Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege.
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The willingness to share does not make one charitable; it makes one free.
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The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
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Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distresses of every one, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse; remembering always the estimation of the widow's mite, but, that it is not every one who asketh that deserveth charity; all, however, are worthy of the inquiry, or the deserving may suffer.
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It’s not just about being able to write a check. It’s being able to touch somebody’s life.
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Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
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He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.
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Fundraisers should use pride, not apology, when asking for a gift for a charity that is doing good work.
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The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving.
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Fundraising opportunities will continue to exist throughout the next century. Those opportunities will equal or exceed all current experience or presently held future expectations.
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Fundraising is not really about money. It's about people.
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Fundraising is proclaiming what we believe in such a way that we offer other people an opportunity to participate with us in our vision and mission.
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The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.
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No one has ever become poor by giving.
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when we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.
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In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.
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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.
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There is so much wretchedness in the world, that we may safely take the word of any mortal professing to need our assistance; and, even should we be deceived, still the good to ourselves resulting from a kind act is worth more than the trifle by which we purchase it.
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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.