These fundraising quotes will inspire you. Fundraising is the process of seeking and gathering voluntary financial contributions by engaging individuals, businesses, charitable foundations, or governmental agencies.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging fundraising quotes, fundraising sayings, and fundraising proverbs.
Famous Fundraising Quotes
- “Fundraising is a very rich and beautiful activity. It is a confident, joyful and hope-filled expression of ministry. In ministering to each other, each from the riches that he or she possesses, we work together for the full coming of God’s Kingdom.” ~ Henri Nouwen
- “The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.” ~ Orison Swett Marden
- “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.” ~ Henri
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“I have tried raising money by asking for it, and by not asking for it. I always got more by asking for it.” ~ Millard Fuller
- “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” ~ Winston Churchill
- “Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” ~ Mark Twain
- “The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.” ~ Meryl Streep
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“Everybody can be great…because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “Anybody who is running a marathon or doing a walkathon, doing a fundraiser for their school, their company, by far it’s guaranteed the easiest and most fun way to quickly set up a fundraising campaign and send it around to your friends and family.” ~ Edward Norton
- “Charity begins at home, but should not end there.” ~ Thomas Fuller
- “No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.” ~ Calvin Coolidge
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“Be the compromise you want to see in the world.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “Build what you want to see in the world.” ~ Jack Dorsey
- “Appreciation can make a day – even change a life.” ~ Margaret Cousins
- “You only need a heart full of grace” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“Everybody can be great…because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “Be the trouble you want to see in the world.” ~ Joey Comeau
- “Be the change you want to see.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “In the long run we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.” ~ Sheldon B. Kopp
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“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” ~ Dalai Lama
- “The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , Fundraising quotes about charity
- “To a considerable extent we are faced by a technology arms race with terrorists. The communications revolution has made it easier for terrorist groups to reach out to vulnerable individuals with their violent extremist ideology and propaganda. It has also facilitated fundraising, recruitment and training.” ~ Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones
- “You now have six-year campaigns for the Senate – you never stop running. It’s not uncommon for a member of the Senate to have a fundraising breakfast, a fundraising lunch and a fundraising dinner, and then when the Senate breaks for the week to go home, more fundraisers. And that’s driven by the cost of campaigning.” ~ Evan Bayh
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“Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
- “Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.” ~ Francis of Assisi
- “Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.” ~ Muhammad Ali
- “When I was in office the fundraising was done by the party treasurers.” ~ John Major
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“Giving opens the way for receiving.” ~ Florence Scovel Shinn
- “Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.” ~ Margaret Cousins
- “Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” ~ Norman MacEwen
- “This is pure speculation, but for a period of time, a lot of getting into a party was through fundraising and volunteer work, and Republican women had more time to do that than democratic women, who were out there getting jobs.” ~ Madeleine Albright
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“There really is a camaraderie among chefs and a willingness to help out whenever we can.” ~ Rocco DiSpirito
- “It’s very important to me that people who are actual chefs and other professionals in the culinary world, understand that I’m not, and have never held myself out as being, like a CIA-trained chef.” ~ Ted Allen
- “The British Red Cross asked me to help them spearhead a fundraising campaign for the victims of the war in Nicaragua. It was a turning point in my life. It began my commitment to justice and human rights issues.” ~ Bianca Jagger
- “Chefs, as a whole, say yes to any project, fundraiser, or tasting because they have such a generous spirit.” ~ Charlie Trotter , Fundraising quotes about generosity
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“In any restaurant of this caliber, the chefs are in the same position, building relationships.” ~ Thomas Keller
- “The country’s top chefs, designers, media personalities and businesses are part of this dynamic city. We know that Chicagoans are used to the highest standards.” ~ Ivanka Trump
- “The restaurant chefs in Spain are breaking ground, but in terms of the everyday cooking in Spain, I still hear people coming back and saying they were disappointed. I think it’s because they’re expecting the chef stuff.” ~ Sally Schneider
- “No one has ever become poor by giving.” ~ Anne Frank
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“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.” ~ William James
- “Our privacy is starting to be invaded and we can’t get anything done. I’m happy with the fundraising but upset we don’t have time to talk and meet with people.” ~ Terry Fox
- “I’m also involved in the rights of the disabled and do some fundraising for that and I thought it would have been a big boost for the campaign but it couldn’t be worked out.” ~ David Prowse
- “Be the change you want to see in your networks” ~ James H. Fowler
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“”Be Prepared.” “Be prepared for what?” “Why, for any old thing.”” ~ Robert Baden-Powell
- “We aren’t upset when Paramount makes a $200 million movie that flops, but if a charity experiments with a $5 million fundraising event that fails, we call in the attorneys. So charities are petrified of trying bold new revenue-generating endeavors and can’t develop the powerful learning curves the for-profit sector can.” ~ Dan Pallotta
- “Giving money effectively is almost as hard as earning it in the first place.” ~ Bill Gates
- “Fundraising requires looking someone eye-to-eye and say, “Will you help me” and don’t say another thing. Just listen to them.” ~ Jeff Henderson
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“There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life-happiness, freedom, and peace of mind are always attained by giving them to someone else.” ~ Peyton C. Marchv
- “Few actions of consequence in the world have been accomplished without passion.” ~ Jerold Panas
- “Fundraising is also always a call conversion. And this comes to both those who seek funds and those who have funds. Whether we are asking for money or giving money we are drawn together by God, who is about to do a new thing through our collaboration.” ~ Henri
- “There exists a shadowy Government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of the national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself.” ~ Daniel Inouye
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“I think what it is is do not depend on the president to get you over the line. Do not depend on the fundraising, on the turnout operation, the president’s own popularity, because it’s not going to work.” ~ Christopher Michael Cillizza
- “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
- “Heritage Action is a self-interested fundraising organization led by a former Giuliani staffer who is not taking counsel from real conservatives… It is a worthless organization to the conservative movement. I’ll be the first to say that.” ~ Geoff Davis
- “Almost no one under 60 remembers what fundraising was like before Watergate. Until the 1970s, campaign money was collected by “bagmen,” familiar characters from the world of organized crime. As fans of Boardwalk Empire know, a bagman is a political fixer who walked around with stacks of $100 and $1,000 bills. At lower levels, he used brown paper bags. In presidential campaigns, the cash was more likely to be in briefcases. Classier that way.” ~ Jonathan Alter
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“He [Barack Obama] is been boffo at fundraising – 220 fundraisers, and he raised something approaching $1 billion.” ~ Lou Dobbs
- “Our fundraising went up about a thousand percent and that’s largely been sustained.” ~ Jill Stein
- “Running for office in our country takes a lot of money, and candidates have to go out and raise it. New York is probably the leading site for contributions for fundraising for candidates on both sides of the aisle, and it’s also our economic center. And there are a lot of people here who should ask some tough questions before handing over campaign contributions to people who were really playing chicken with our whole economy.” ~ Hillary Clinton
- “Politicians are really getting desperate. In fact, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid sent out a final fundraising email to Democrats with the subject line, ‘I’m begging.’ Because what better way to show you’re a strong leader than acting like you’re drunk and dialing your ex?” ~ Jimmy Fallon
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“I am fundraising gold. Democrat donors hate me so much, they hear my name and they run to their checkbooks.” ~ Rush Limbaugh
- “Fred Wilson is a legendary VC and the Managing Partner of Union Square Ventures in New York City. At AVC, he writes one of the most popular startup blogs and covers issues from negotiation to hiring to fundraising. He’s a machine for dispensing helpful advice and insightful commentary for those in our industry.” ~ Emerson Spartz
- “I personally spend the majority of my time by far on outreach and education and fundraising and administration.” ~ James Balog
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“When you say politics, you conjure a whole bunch of associations: elections, campaigning, debates, fundraising. None of this exists in Russia! We are still fighting not for election victories but for having elections at all.” ~ Garry Kasparov
- “[President Clinton] boasts about 186,000 people denied firearms under the Brady Law rules. The Brady Law has been in force for three years. In that time, they have prosecuted seven people and put three of them in prison. You know, the President has entertained more felons than that at fundraising coffees in the White House, for Pete’s sake.” ~ Charlton Heston
- “Rick Santorum beat Mitt Romney in three states on Tuesday. Got a huge amount of fundraising. That’s the good news for Rick Santorum. The bad news: people are now Googling ‘Santorum.'” ~ Bill Maher
