Giving Quotes

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I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
Maya Angelou

The living need charity more than the dead.
George Arnold

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
Arthur Ashe

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
Richard Bach

Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Sarah Bernhardt

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another’s, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.
Leo Buscaglia

We believe we are hurt when we don’t receive love. But that is not what hurts us. Our pain comes when we do not give love. We were born to love. You might say that we are divinely created love machines. We function most powerfully when we are giving love. The world has led us to believe that our wellbeing is dependent on other people loving us. But this is kind of upside down thinking that has caused so many of our problems. The truth is our well being is dependent on our giving love. It is not about what comes back; it is about what goes out!
Alan Cohen

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
Calvin Coolidge

The measure of your life will not be in what you accumulate, but in what you give away.
Wayne Dyer

It is ever man’s obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.
Albert Einstein

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other.
George Eliot

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that you cannot sincerely try to help another without helping yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.
Frederick W. Faber

No one has ever become poor by giving.
Anne Frank

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. It’s got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.
Viktor Frankl

What is to give light must endure burning.
Viktor Frankl

Love never claims, it ever gives.
Mahatma Gandhi

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Kahlil Gibran

Art is a personal gift that changes the recipient. The medium doesn't matter. The intent does.
Seth Goden

The mind takes delight in offering the best, giving what we value most.
Joseph Goldstein

Giving is the highest expression of power.
Vivian Greene

The more compassionate you are, the more generous you can be. The more generous you are, the move loving friendliness you cultivate to help the world.
Thich Nhat Hanh

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
John Andrew Holmes, Jr.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.
Elbert Hubbard

What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.
P.D. James

To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate.
Michael Jordan

Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.
Ken Keyes, Jr.

Real generosity is an unfailing sign of spirituality.
Hazrat Inayat Khan

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Lao Tzu

One cannot reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
Lao Tzu

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
Og Mandino

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
George MacDonald

Give back what you have learned. Share your experience.
Deng Ming-Dao

The heart that gives, gathers.
Marianne Moor

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The miracle is this – the more we share, the more we have.
Leonard Nimoy

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by loving.
Anaïs Nin

The secret of life is that all we have and are is a gift of grace to be shared.
Lloyd John Ogilvie

Get a life in which you are generous. Look around at the azaleas in the suburban neighborhood where you grew up; look at a full moon hanging silver in a black, black sky on a cold night. And realize that life is the best thing ever, and that you have no business taking it for granted. Care so deeply about its goodness that you want to spread it around. Take money...and give it to charity. Work in a soup kitchen. Be a Big Brother or Sister...You want to do well, but if you do not do good too, then doing well will never be enough.
Anna Quindlen

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
Anthony Robbins

Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life’s deepest joy: true fulfillment.
Anthony Robbins

Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.
Dale Evans Rogers

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

When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die.
Eleanor Roosevelt

The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who have little.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Giving opens the way for receiving.
Florence Scovel Shinn

When I feel the joy of receiving a gift my heart nudges me to join creation's ballet, the airy dance of giving and receiving, and getting and giving again.
Lewis Smedes

You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
Ruth Smeltzer

Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.
W. Clement Stone

If we try hard to bring happiness to others, we cannot stop it from coming to us also. To get joy, we must give it, and to keep joy, we must scatter it.
John Templeton

Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
Mother Teresa

Joy is prayer. Joy is strength. Joy is love...She gives most who gives with joy.
Mother Teresa

If you want love and abundance in your life, give it away.
Mark Twain

The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The meaning of life is giving your gift away.
David Viscott

Give yourself abundant pleasure, and you will have abundant pleasure to give to others.
Neale Donald Walsch

Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.
William Arthur Ward

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
William Arthur Ward

When I give I give myself.
Walt Whitman

We are not held back by the love we didn’t receive in the past, but by the love we’re not extending in the present.
Marianne Williamson

You are not here merely to make a living, you are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself when you forget that errand.
Woodrow Wilson

I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life.
Oprah Winfrey

Ignoring your passion is like dying a slow death…Passion whispers to you through your feelings, beckoning you toward your highest good. Pay attention to what makes you feel energized, connected, stimulated- what gives you your juice. Do what you love, give it back in the form of service, and you will do more than succeed. You will triumph.
Oprah Winfrey

The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.
Oprah Winfrey

When people say they are looking for happiness, I ask, What are you giving to the world?
Oprah Winfrey

Love the giver more than the gift.
Brigham Young