The Fundraisers’ Book of Quotations

By Alan Sharpe (January 2006) E-book  $29.99

Inspire and motivate your donors with over 2,700 quips, proverbs, aphorisms, witticisms, zingers, epigrams, quotes, one-liners and words of wisdom from actors, writers, activists, philanthropists, artists, scientists, philosophers, poets, humorists, novelists, inventors, journalists, kings, queens, magnates, presidents, dissidents, preachers, paupers and others, famous and infamous, living and dead.

Next time you sit down to write to a donor but can’t  think what to write, let someone else write it for you. Someone like Mother  Theresa. Mark Twain. Rosa Parks. Ernest Hemmingway. Think of all the topics you could possibly want to write about in a  fundraising letter, grant proposal or thank-you letter. Chances are, someone has  said something quotable on that topic. Now you have ready access to these quotations in The Fundraisers’ Book of  Quotations. Over 2,700 quips, proverbs, aphorisms, witticisms, zingers,  epigrams, quotes, one-liners and words of wisdom that will inspire and motivate  your donors.

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Topics covered

1. Action
2. Apathy
3. Art
4. Attitude
5. Challenge
6. Change
7. Children
8. Christianity
9. Commitment
10. Community
11. Confidence
12. Conscience
13. Courage
14. Difficulties
15. Dissent
16. Duty
17. Education
18. Effort
19. Enemies
20. Enthusiasm
21. Equality
22. Evil
23. Example
24. Excellence
25. Expectations
26. Experience
27. Failure
28. Faith
29. Family
30. Fathers
31. Fear
32. Freedom
33. Friendship
34. Future
35. Generosity
36. Giving
37. Globalism
38. Goals
39. Good
40. Government
41. Gratitude
42. Grief
43. Happiness
44. Hatred
45. Health
46. Hope
47. Human rights
48. Ideals
49. Ideas
50. Ignorance
51. Imagination
52. Inclusion
53. Indifference
54. Injustice
55. Joy
56. Justice
57. Kindness
58. Knowledge
59. Limitations
60. Love
61. Material possessions
62. Minorities
63. Money
64. Nature
65. Now
66. Opportunity
67. Optimism
68. Peace
69. Persistence
70. Perspective
71. Poverty
72. Power
73. Prejudice
74. Procrastination
75. Progress
76. Purpose
77. Racism
78. Readiness
79. Reform
80. Religious freedom
81. Risk
82. Sacrifice
83. Self-respect
84. Service
85. Sharing
86. Solidarity
87. Strength
88. Stupidity
89. Success
90. Suffering
91. Tact
92. Teamwork
93. Time
94. Tolerance
95. Trust
96. War
97. Wealth
98. Winning
99. Work
100. Worth

Quotations from just about every area of life

• Activists: Jane Addams, Rachel Carson, Noam Chomsky, Marian Wright Edelman, Gloria Steinem, others.
• Actors and actresses: Audrey Hepburn, Sophia Loren, Patricia Neal, Robert Redford, Christopher Reeve, Oprah Winfrey, others.
• Artists: Julia Cameron, Elizabeth Murray, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, others.
• Business leaders: Peter Drucker, Malcolm Forbes, Henry Ford, David Ogilvy, others.
• Great Thinkers: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Alvin Toffler, others.
• Humorists: Bill Cosby, Garrison Keillor, Groucho Marx, Dorothy Parker, Mark Twain, others.
• Novelists: Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Herman Melville, Moliere, P. J. O’Rourke, George Bernard Shaw, Robert L. Stevenson, Leo Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Alice Walker, Virginia Woolf, others.
• Philosophers: Aristotle, Immanuel, Kant, Søren Kierkegaard, Plato, Friedrich Von Schlegel, others.
• Poets: Robert Frost, Goethe, Ezra Pound, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, others.
• Political leaders: Jimmy Carter, Princess Diana, Mohandas Gandhi, Vaclav Havel, Thomas Jefferson, John F. Kennedy, Abraham Lincoln, Nelson Mandela, Golda Meir, Franklin Roosevelt, Margaret Thatcher, Woodrow Wilson, others.
• Religious leaders: Thomas A Kempis, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, John Calvin, G. K. Chesterton, Confucius, Dalai Lama, Thomas Moore, John Wesley, others.
• Scientists: Charles Darwin, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, William James, Carl Jung, Margaret Mead, Maria Mitchell, Louis Pasteur, Peck, M. Scott, others.
• Singers: Jimmy Buffet, Lena Horne, others.
• Women: Anne Frank, Helen Keller, Rosa Parks, Eleanor Roosevelt, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mother Theresa, others.

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How to use this electronic book

This e-book is in Adobe Acrobat format. That means you buy and download  an electronic file in Adobe PDF format. You cannot buy a print version, since no print version exists.

This e-book contains over 2,700 quotes arranged alphabetically by topic. Quotes within each topic are arranged alphabetically by author. There is no index,  since one is not needed in an e-book. To find quotes about a particular topic, you consult the Table of Contents at the front of the book. To find quotes by a particular person, you use the Find feature in Adobe Acrobat Reader, under the Edit menu. Simply type the author’s name (or part of the name) in the box provided and click Next. To find every occurrence of this person’s name (in other words, to find every quote in this book by this person), click Next repeatedly until you reach the end of the document. This is much faster than using an index.

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Product Details

Format: E-book in Adobe PDF format for immediate download
Pages: 200
Publisher: Andrew Spencer Publishing
Language: English
Dimensions: 8.5 x 11 inches
SKU: sharpe005

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