Quote Lady's Quotes by Subject, Giving

Giving

Among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.--Maya Angelou
The amount you give isn't important. What matters is what that amount represents in terms of your life.--Jim Rohn (Jim Rohn's Weekly E-zine - June 24, 2003)
Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.--Melvin Schleeds
Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.--Elizabeth Bibesco
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.--Andre Gide
The dedicated life is the life worth living. You must give with your whole heart.--Annie Dillard
Don't be reluctant to give of yourself generously, it's the mark of caring and compassion and personal greatness.--Brian Tracey (The Treasury of Quotes)
For it is in giving that we receive.--St. Francis Of Assisi
The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose.--Heda Bejar
Getters don't get--givers get.--Eugene Benge
The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them.--Rod McKuen
Giving is a joy if we do it in the right spirit. It all depends on whether we think of it as "What can I spare? " or as "What can I share? "--Esther Baldwin York
Giving opens the way for receiving.--Florence Scovel Shinn
Giving whether it be of time, labor, affection, advice, gifts, or whatever, is one of life's greatest pleasures.--Rebecca Russell
The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.--Elizabeth Cady Stanton
He gives little who gives with a frown; he gives much who gives little with a smile.--The Talmud
He that gives quickly gives twice.--Cervantes (Don Quixote)
A hug is the perfect gift--one size fits all, and nobody minds if you exchange it.--Ivern Ball
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.--Albert Einstein
I have come to believe that giving and receiving are really the same. Giving and receiving--not giving and taking.--Joyce Grenfell (Joyce Grenfell Requests the Pleasure)
I would like to believe when I die that I have given myself away like a tree that sows seed every spring and never counts the loss, because it is not loss, it is adding to future life. It is the tree's way of being. Strongly rooted perhaps, but spilling out its treasure on the wind.--May Sarton
If you give money, spend yourself with it.--Henry David Thoreau
In the sphere of material things, giving means being rich. Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.--Erich Fromm
It is expressly at those times when we feel needy that we will benefit the most from giving.--Ruth Ross
It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.--Gloria Steinem
Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.--Brian Tracey (The Treasury of Quotes)
The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.--Pierre Corneille
Nature does not give to those who will not spend...--R.J. Baughan
Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.--C. S. Lewis (Mere Christianity)
The ones that give, get back in kind.--Pam Durban
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.--Kahlil Gibran ("On Giving" The Prophet)
There are two kinds of people in the world: the Givers and the Takers.
The difference between the two is that the Takers eat well,
and the Givers sleep well at night.--Joy Mills (Between Heaven and Earth: the Purpose of the Soul)
There is only one real deprivation, I decided this morning, and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.--May Sarton (Journal of a Solitude)
This is the law of benefits between men; the one ought to forget at once what he has given, and the other ought never to forget what he has received.--Seneca
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess.--Rainer Maria Rilke
To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.--Anne Morrow Lindbergh
We are rich only through what we give.--Anne-Sophie Swetchine
We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.--Ben Sweetland
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.--Norman MacEwen
We must not only give what we have; we must also give what we are.--Desire-Joseph Mercier
What we frankly give, forever is our own.--George Granville
What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.--Inscription, Tomb Of Edward
What you give becomes an investment that will return to you multiplied at some point in the future.--Jim Rohn (Jim Rohn's Weekly E-zine - June 24, 2003)
What you keep to yourself you lose, what you give away, you keep forever.--Munthe
When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.--Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.--Jim Rohn
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.--Lao-tzu
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.--Kahlil Gibran
You have to sow before you can reap. You have to give before you can get.--Robert Collier
You must give to get, You must sow the seed, before you can reap the harvest.--Scott Reed