41 Quotes About Fundraising

Fundraising is a great way to draw awareness to causes that matter in your community and to meet your financial needs and goals. These quotes about fundraising are encouraging to read and will inspire you to be ambitious in your goals.

“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.”

“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.”

“Charity begins at home, but should not end there.”

“Donors don’t give to institutions. They invest in ideas and people in whom they believe.”

“Fundraisers should use pride, not apology, when asking for a gift for a charity that is doing good work.”

“Fundraising is very, very time-consuming.”

“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.”

“Giving is the master key to success, in all applications of human life.”

“Good companies are always fundraising. Whether you’re meeting people or considering firms, you’re always fundraising.”

“I approached fundraising as an opportunity to align myself with partners who have more varied experience and diverse backgrounds than I do to help bring Glossier to life.”

“I don’t think you ever stop giving – I really don’t. I think it’s an on-going process. And it’s not just about being able to write a check. It’s being able to touch somebody’s life.”

“I prefer building rather than fundraising.”

“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.”

“I think fundraising has a lot to do with political viability.”

“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.”

“In good times and bad, we know that people give because you meet needs, not because you have needs.”

“It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.”

“It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.”

“I’ve always done party building and party fundraising.”

“Neither liberal nor conservative politicians can resist the temptation to stand as mighty sequoias of rectitude amid the lowly underbrush of fundraising.”

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”

“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.”

“The best things to do with the best things in life is to give them away.”

“The highest use of capital is not to make more money but to make money do more for the betterment of life.”

“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”

“The secret to fundraising comes down to three magic words: before, more, and strategic.”

“The small charity that comes from the heart is better than the great charity that comes from the head.”

“The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving.”

“The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.”

“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.”

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”

“Wealth is not to feed our egos, but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves.”

“When fundraising, your network is critical. Leveraging it early and often is the key. Don’t make the mistake of waiting until you need money to engage sources of capital.”

“When I started fundraising like me and leading like me, that’s when I really started to shine and find my own rhythm.”

“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.”

“When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.”

“When you’re fundraising for a venture fund, you’re supposed to not talk.”

“You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.”

“You cannot afford to leave out giving in your life plan. You cannot afford to leave it to chance occurrence.”

“You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself.”

“You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.”

There are many easy ways to fundraise and meet your goals.