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Motivational Quotes:
Fundraising, Giving and Gratitude

Fundraising is the gentle art of teaching the joy of giving.
- Hank Rosso

Donors don't give to institutions. They invest in ideas and people in whom they believe.
- G.T. Smith

In good times and bad, we know that people give because you meet needs, not because you have needs.
- Kay Grace

You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give.
- Winston Churchill

Life is an echo -- what you send out comes back.
- Unknown

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 Conway March

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
- Andre Gide

He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows -- he breathes but does not live.
- Sanskrit Proverb

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer

If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap.
If you want happiness for a day, go fishing.
If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody.
- Chinese proverb

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
- Seneca

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.
- George Eliot

A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.
- Lawrence G. Lovasik

Giving opens the way for receiving.
- Florence Scovel Shinn

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.
- Oprah Winfrey

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
- William James

Appreciation can make a day--even change a life, Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.
- Margaret Cousins

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
- Gladys Browyn Stern

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a gift and not giving it.
- Unknown