Charity Quotes

Charity quotes can be used in so many different ways to help your fundraising campaigns!

Use them to inspire and motivate your fundraising team. Use them to encourage your supporters to donate or participate.

You can use these quotes on your website, your newsletters, your posters, flyers, fundraising letters, 'thank you' letters, and fortune cookies!

Also use them on your online donations campaign page,  your cookbooks and at your trivia nights.

And a Great Place for Some of These Quotes...

Will be on your T Shirt designs for your T Shirt Crowdfunding campaign. It's a brilliant "risk-free" fundraiser - definitely check it out.

A Henry David Thoreau and other inspirational charity quotes! (Photo by Kiran Foster / Flickr)

Be creative and use them in all your communications. Here are some inspirational quotes you can use...

Have any Inspirational Fundraising Quotes you love?

Then please share them down below. Thanks!



Charity Quotes:

"Charity begins at home, but should not end there" - Proverb

"Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something." - Henry David Thoreau

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." - Winston Churchill

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." - Winston Churchill.

"Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance." - St. Francis of Assisi

"An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves." - Mrs. Lydia Maria Child

"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

"The highest form of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion." - Richard P. Feynman

"The highest form of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion." - Richard P. Feynman. (Photo by CherieJoyful / Flickr)

"Generosity consists not the sum given, but the manner in which it is bestowed" - Mahatma Gandhi

"Be the change you want to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi

"He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own." - Confucius

"The habit of being uniformly considerate towards others will bring increased happiness to you." - Grenville Kleiser

"Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible." - Norman Vincent Peale


More Charity Quotes:

"Charity sees the need, not the cause" - German Proverb

"May your charity increase as much as your wealth"- Proverb

"Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth." - Muhammad Ali

"Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others." - Plato

"It is when you give of yourself that you truly give." - Kahlil Gibran

"It is when you give of yourself that you truly give." - Kahlil Gibran.

"The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning." - Mitch Albom

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Pray for the dead. And fight like hell for the living!" - Mother Jones

"As one person I cannot change the world, but I can change the world of one person." - Paul Shane Spear

"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions." - Dalai Lama

"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little." - Edmund Burke

"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little." - Edmund Burke (Photo by Grant / Flickr)

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