Giving Quotes

The more we bestow the richer we become.

Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. For what keeps our interest in life and makes us look forward to tomorrow is giving pleasure to other people.

How can I give love when I don't know what it is I'm giving?

You can only give away what you have inside. Become an instrument of love, invite love to accompany you 24/7. Give away love, and it has to come streaming into your life.

You can always-always-give something, even if it's a simple act of kindness! If everyone were to give in this way and didn't scrimp on kindly words, there would be much more love and justice in the world!

I am sure that if somebody is giving a sum to charity, he or she should be encouraged to do so by the authorities because the spirit in which we encourage people to give has permeated our society.

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

There is seemingly so little love shared in this world, it is not surprising that we ask, "Where have all the lovers gone?" Since love is the most vital energy for good that is within our power to utilize, it is puzzling why we so seldom do so. Love is just a useless, abstract idea until we put it into action...unless we are always actively living in love, we are not utilizing the greatest gift we have been given and which we, in turn, have to offer.

Out of love, No regrets-- Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets-- Though the return Be never.

In the world take always the position of the giver. Give everything and look for no return. Give love, give help, give service, give any little thing you can, but keep out barter. Make no conditions and none will be imposed on you. Let us give out of our own bounty, just as God gives to us.

Feel for others - in your pocket

It's not about what I can get, it's what I can give.

There are those who give and know not pain in giving, nor do they seek joy, nor give with mindfulness of virtue; They give as in yonder valley the myrtle breathes its fragrance into space.

Speaking with kindness creates confidence, thinking with kindness creates profoundness, giving with kindness creates love.

It's best to start the discipline of generosity when the amounts are small. It's easy to give ten cents out of a dollar; it's a little harder to give a hundred thousand out of a million.

What am I doing with the gifts that have been given and the opportunities that are mine to make things better for others? I think it's always - success has to be beyond the person who is themselves working for personal success. It's also got to be helping someone else.

We can only give away to others what we have inside ourselves.

With what we give, we make a life.

The best way to succeed is to discover what you love and find a way to offer it to others.

The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Give all to love: Obey thy heart; Friends, kindred, days, Estate, good fame, Plans, credit, and the Muse,- Nothing refuse.

Kindness in thinking creates profundity. Kindness in giving creates love.

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.

I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that.

No man can help another without helping himself.

It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding; and to the open-handed the search for one who shall receive is joy greater than giving.

He who bestows something great receives no gratitude; for in accepting it the recipient has already been weighed down too much.

Fill yourselves first and then only will you be able to give to others.

There are scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come along; people who will appreciate our compassion, our encouragement, who will need our unique talents. Someone who will live a happier life merely because we took the time to share what we had to give.

Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man.

I consider not what Parmenio should receive, but what Alexander should give.

The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him.

You give before you get.

The value of a man resides in what he gives

Giving is living. If you stop wanting to give, there's nothing more to live for.

You can't give it to others if you don't have it in yourself.

Giving is true loving.

Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance. So Ambrosius says, and it is also to be found in the Decretum Gratiani: The bread which you withhold belongs to the hungry: the clothing you shut away, to the naked: and the money you bury in the earth is the redemption and freedom of the penniless.

When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.

Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.

Imagine, just for the sake of discussion, that you had a few hours a week and a few dollars a month to donate to a cause - and you wanted to spend that time and money where it would have the greatest impact in saving and improving lives. Where would you spend it?

Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.

If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

Fortunate is the person who has learned that the most certain way to 'get' is to first 'give' through some sort of useful service.

Life is beautiful. It's about giving. It's about family.

There is joy in self-forgetfulness. So I try to make the light in others' eyes my sun, the music in others' ears my symphony, the smile on others' lips my happiness.

That's love, giving everything, sacrificing all without hope of return.

No one ever was the poorer for giving

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.

A person's level of income and their desire to give have nothing to do with one another.

Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.

People do not give from the top of their purses but from the bottom of their hearts. If you desire to become a more generous person do not change your income. Change your heart.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

Is there any real purpose in being alive if all we are going to do is get up every day and live only for ourselves? Live your life to help others. Give & live selflessly.

I gave you the best of me.

The fourth (of the four cardinal virtues) is supportiveness: this manifests as service to others without expectation of reward. (Paraphrased: Such service is not a mere conforming to some external rule of behavior, but instead a manifestation of your original nature).

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.