Wise Words
2 February 2016
Julianne Shenk
JBS Nonprofit
Consulting
I wanted to use
this month’s blog to highlight and share with you some of my favorite quotes.
Some are directly related to nonprofits and nonprofit work, and others are
merely relatable to nonprofits.
Pick your
favorite and make it your personal motto, or share with JBS Nonprofit
Consulting your favorite quote or motto.
"Service to others is the rent you pay
for your room here on Earth." -Muhammad
Ali
“Potential supporters
[must] not only believe in your mission, but in your capacity to deliver on
that mission.” -Jim Collins
“Volunteers are love
in motion!” - Anonymous
“To give away money is an easy matter and in
any man’s power. But to decide to whom to give it and how large and when, and
for what purpose and how, is neither in every man’s power nor an easy matter.” -Aristotle
“Even
the smallest person in the world can change the course of the universe.” -JRR
Tolkien (Lord of the Rings)
“I
resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and
difficult task of wise distribution.” -Andrew Carnegie
“Wealth
is not to feed our egos, but to feed the hungry and to help people help
themselves.” -Andrew Carnegie
“I’ve
always respected those who tried to change the world for the better, rather
than just complain about it.”
Michael Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg
“We
make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.” -Winston
Churchill
“How
wonderful it is that nobody needs to wait a single moment before starting to
improve the world.” -Anne Frank
“The
value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of
receiving.” -Albert Einstein
“It
is every man’s obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of
what he takes out of it.” -Albert Einstein
"If
you want to change the world, be that change." -Mohandas Gandhi
“Fundraising is the gentle art of teaching
the joy of giving.” -Hank Rosso
“Helping
people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.” -Melinda Gates
“It’s
not just about being able to write a check. It’s being able to touch somebody’s
life.” -Oprah Winfrey
“If
a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who
are rich.” -John F. Kennedy
“Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.” -John D.
Rockefeller
“I
was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.” -John D.
Rockefeller, Jr.
“Donors don’t give to
institutions. They invest in ideas and people in whom they believe.” -G.T.
Smith
“Carry out random acts of kindness, with no expectation of
reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.”
– Princess Diana of Wales
“I slept
and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service.
I served and I saw that service is joy.” ― Kahlil Gibran
“Give,
but give until it hurts.” ― Mother Teresa
“It's not how much we
give but how much love we put into giving.” ― Mother Teresa
“As we
work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way.” ― Mary Anne
Radmacher
“No one
is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.” ― Charles
Dickens
“Life's
most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?” ―
Martin Luther King Jr.
“When we
give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.” ― Maya Angelou
“You
have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never
repay you.” -John Bunyan
“There
is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.”
― John Holmes
“That's
what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as
if it costs you nothing.” ― Simone de Beauvoir
“When we
give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.” ― Maya Angelou
“To ease
another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“Those
who are happiest are those who do the most for others.” ― Booker T. Washington
“The
most treasured and sacred moments of our lives are those filled with the spirit
of love. The greater the measure of our love, the greater is our joy. In the
end, the development of such love is the true measure of success in life.” ―
Joseph B Wirthlin
“If
you’re in the luckiest one percent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of
humanity to think about the other 99 percent.” ― Warren Buffett
