Quotes About Giving

Never will I pursue happiness, because it is not a goal, just a by-product, and there is no happiness in having or in getting, only in giving.

The wise man does not lay up treasure. The more he expends on others, the more he gains for himself. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

The real way to gain happiness is to give it to others.

To be generous is the best way to live in this world.

In life, whatever you give to your society should be more than what you receive from it.

The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out communication is getting through.

Listen, God can't bless what you won't do. You haven't been taught correctly. Prosperity doesn't just come from giving an offering. It's good to be a giver. But you must also be a thinker, a planner, and a worker.

To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.

We return to you, O earth, the things which you have given us willingly and most graciously; with our hearts, hands and minds, in the best way we know how.

Masochism seemed to make sense to me in terms of the struggle for self-consciousness of the slave in the struggle unto death. 'I feel like sex, I mean, giving myself, helps me. Giving my whole self to someone until I forget who I am helps me deal with my problems.

Spare all I have, and take my life.

Each day offers us the gift of being a special occasion if we can simply learn that as well as giving, it is blessed to receive with grace and a grateful heart.

Where we're living we have a certain amount of our profit every year it's like a percentage 5 or 7% or something like that that we set aside specifically for charity things.

I've always been passionate about giving back, not just anywhere, but to my city specifically. That's extremely important to me.

I always thought that I would spend the first half of my life making money so I can spend the second half of my life giving it all away. And one of the defining moments of my life was when I realized that I could do both at the same time with TOMS.

It is in spending oneself that one becomes rich.

What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: 'What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.'

I want you to hear from God. God already spoke to me what I'm going to write out. You're going to write your checks to Paula White Ministries. If God tells you to give $12.99, do it. Whatever the Holy Spirit speaks to you. If you need to give by credit card, do so.

Love never claims, it ever gives.

'Tis more blessed to give than to receive for example wedding presents.

The rich man is not one who is in possession of much, but one who gives much.

The rich man who gives to the poor does not bestow alms but pays a debt.

The man who always takes and never gives is not a leader. He is a parasite.