Fundraiser Quotes

• 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

  Running, Fun, School

  Interview with Teena Apeles, www.askmen.com.

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Running, Home, Years

  16 Copy quote

• Chefs, as a whole, say yes to any project, fundraiser, or tasting because they have such a generous spirit.

  Charlie Trotter

  Generous Spirit, Fundraising, Chef

  18 Copy quote

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

  Calvin Coolidge

  Life, Leadership, Motivational Sports

  Calvin Coolidge (1920). “Law and Order”

  103 Copy quote

  Show source

• Be the compromise you want to see in the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  63 Copy quote

• Be the change you want to see in your networks

  James H. Fowler

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  58 Copy quote

• Be the trouble you want to see in the world.

  Joey Comeau

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "A Softer World". Webcomic by Joey Comeau,

  59 Copy quote

  Show source

• Be the change you want to see.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  91 Copy quote

• Build what you want to see in the world.

  Jack Dorsey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  73 Copy quote

• Giving opens the way for receiving.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Receiving Love, Fundraising, Giving

  Florence Scovel Shinn (2016). “The Game of Life and How to Play It”, p.116, Hay House, Inc

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• Life is an echo. What you send out comes back.

  Zig Ziglar

  Life, Echoes, Reap

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Jul 02, 2013

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Barack Obama said today that politics has become too gummed up by money and influence ... and then he had to leave to attend a fundraiser.

  Jay Leno

  Today, Influence, Said

  6 Copy quote

• One time I was doing an interview for a gay magazine and halfway through the journalist found out I wasn't gay. He said, 'Sorry, I can't continue the interview.' Because they only had gay public figures in their magazine. I felt so crestfallen. I wanted to tell him: but I play fundraisers for gay marriage! I'd rather my kids were gay than straight!'

  Moby

  Sorry, Kids, Gay

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I know that it's probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or a politician. This is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw 'The Killing Fields,' and I've got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.

  Al Franken

  Ideas, Years, Support

  4 Copy quote

• I'm old enough now that I've been around and I've seen a lot more things than I had seen when I started this program 27 years. I have seen presidents in action. I have been to the White House a number of times. I have been to fundraisers. I have been seen what happens at fundraisers. I've seen how elected officials treat fundraisers and donors and, believe me, the world revolves around them.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, Years, White

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The "Great Walk to Beijing" was a fundraiser for my cancer center. It was a three-week trek with fellow cancer "thrivers," including celebrities ranging from Joan Rivers to Leeza Gibbons, and Olympians.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Cancer, Rivers, Three

  Interview with Jessie Sholl, www.everydayhealth.com. September 29, 2008.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There was an embarrassing moment at a recent Democratic fundraiser. When John Kerry was handed a $10 million dollar check, he said, 'I do.'

  Craig Kilborn

  Dollars, Moments, Embarrassing

  4 Copy quote

• Turn strangers into friends. Turn friends into donors. And then do the most important job: Turn your donors into fundraisers.

  Seth Godin

  Jobs, Important, Stranger

  4 Copy quote

• Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen attended a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton in New York City this week. Hillary told them, 'Good luck with the reboot of your '90s show.' And they said, 'Thanks. Good luck with yours.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  New York, Good Luck, Cities

  4 Copy quote

• We blacks were the first people embracing Obama, long before the people at expensive fundraisers were supporting him. We gave him his first love, 96 percent of blacks voted for him in 2008. Yet today we are the number one in unemployment, with 16 percent of American blacks out of work.

  Jesse Jackson

  First Love, Numbers, Long

  15 Copy quote

• I have a huge crush on President George W. Bush. I saw him at a recent fundraiser, and he`s a babe. He`s got that Ronald Reagan charm. I think he`s hot. I respect his wife, but if he wasn`t married I`d be putting on my cowboy boots and coming around.

  Roseanne Barr

  Crush, Cowboy, Thinking

  4 Copy quote

• I'm writing about the things I see all around me. Growing up in Mississippi, I've seen how these backward ideas about class and race and healthcare and education and housing and racism impact everyday lives. For example, my mother wouldn't let me go to my homecoming dance because the yacht club where they were having the dance threw a fundraiser for David Duke, an ex-Klan member, when he was running for governor of Louisiana. So I grew up seeing how personal politics could be.

  Jesmyn Ward

  Mother, Running, Growing Up

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• In 1980, a well-meaning fundraiser came to see me and said, "Miss Graham, the most powerful thing you have going for you to raise money is your respectability." I wanted to spit. Respectable! Show me any artist who wants to be respectable.

  Martha Graham

  Powerful, Artist, Missing

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood memory”, Doubleday

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't think my grandmother would ever be convinced, but my family was convinced that I was convinced, and actually, they came around. My mother ended up going to fundraisers in Chicago that were raising money to send to the students in the South and actually, over years, she went to an elevated train bus station one day at 6:00 a.m. to hand out leaflets protesting the war.

  Diane Nash

  Mother, War, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

  30 Copy quote

  Show source

• Mitt Romney had a fundraiser in Israel with a bunch of diamond merchants, we don't know the names of them.

  Bob Beckel

  Israel, Names, Bunch

  5 Copy quote