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)
- Fame is what we get in life, but true greatness is based on what we give in life.--Mark Sanborn (You Don’t Need a Title to be a Leader)
- 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
- Generosity does not require material abundance. When I think back on the many people who have been so generous toward me, I never think of money or "things." Instead, I think of the way they gave me their presence, their confidence, their affirmation, support, and blessing — all gifts of "self" that any of us can give.--Parker Palmer ("Breathe In My Life, Breathe Out My Gratitude")
- 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 true having.--Charles Spurgeon
- 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 kids clothes and food is one thing but it's much more important to teach them that other people besides themselves are important, and that the best thing they can do with their lives is to use them in the service of other people.--Dolores Huerta
- 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 is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.--Jim Elliot
- He that gives quickly gives twice.--Cervantes (Don Quixote)
- He who gives what he would as readily throw away gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.--Henry Taylor
- Here is a simple but powerful rule: always give people more than they expect to get.--Nelson Boswell
- A hug is the perfect gift--one size fits all, and nobody minds if you exchange it.--Ivern Ball
- The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.--Ethel Percy Andrus
- 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 my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive.--Dorothee Solle
- If you find that life is flat,
Full of this, with none of that,
Try giving!--Margaret Gordon Kuhlman
- If you give money, spend yourself with it.--Henry David Thoreau
- If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart.--Arab proverb
- 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
- It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving.--Richard Braunstein
- It is the heart that does the giving; the fingers only let go.--Nigerian proverb
- Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them.--So, spread your love everywhere you go.--Mother Teresa
- Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.--Brian Tracey (The Treasury of Quotes)
- Make all you can. Save all you can. Give all you can.--John Wesley
- The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.--Pierre Corneille
- The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others.--Pierre Tielhard de Chardin
- Nature does not give to those who will not spend...--R.J. Baughan
- No one has ever become poor by giving.--Anne Frank
- Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.--C. S. Lewis (Mere Christianity)
- One can give nothing whatever without giving oneself--that is to say, risking oneself. If one cannot risk oneself, then one is simply incapable of giving.--James Baldwin
- One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.--George Eliot
- The ones that give, get back in kind.--Pam Durban
- Our lives will always be full if our hearts are always giving.--Anonymous
- Pray for the strength to give some things - even a few at a time - to someone who has need of them.--Carol Luebering (Coping with Loss: Praying Your Way to Acceptance)
- Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.--Charles Caleb Colton (Lacon)
- Speak the truth.
Give whatever you can.
Never be angry.
These three steps will lead you
Into the presence of the gods.--Buddha
- 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
- To move, to breathe, to fly, to float,
To gain all while you give,
To roam the roads of lands remote,
To travel is to live.
--Hans Christian Andersen
- 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
- We spend our lifetimes being nourished and enlivened by the rain, sun, soil and wind. Our experience is blessed by other living beings, from plants to insects to birds and humans. We receive so much; giving back just naturally feels good. When we live our lives with intention of leaving this temporary home a better place for generations to come, we are perhaps leaving behind the best gift of all.--Madisyn Taylor (Leaving the Earth a Better Place)
- 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 are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.--Hans Urs von Balthasar (Prayer)
- 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 we give generously, with an abundance mentality, what we give away will multiply.--Henri Nouwen
- When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.--Antoine De Saint-Exupery
- Whether we are poor or rich or somewhere in between, we honor the Lord with all he has placed in our care. We open our hands to the poor and share the joy of generous Christian giving.--Kimberly Hahn (Legacy of Love: Biblical Wisdom for Parenting Teens and Young Adults)
- 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
- You’ll not likely go wrong here if you keep remembering that our Master said, "You’re far happier giving than getting."--Acts 20:35 (The Message)
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