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Quotes About Giving

Gifts are an important and necessary part of our collective lives. We need to give and we need to allow others to give.
~ A. A. Gill
Generosity and kindness always feel good to give, and it never feels good to give grief or negativity.
~ Jason Becker
I'm giving away 2 percent of my net income every month. I don't think Bill Gates is doing that.
~ Husnu Ozyegin
The future of TOMS is really creating a whole new business model of this one-for-one giving and expanding the TOMS model from shoes into other products as well.
~ Blake Mycoskie
I'm very rich - in friends. I'm too nice a fellow. I give most of my money away.
~ Wolfman Jack
It's a very nice thing to be able to give joy to people.
~ Jon Crosby
One of the nicest satisfactions you can have is to be able to give something back to your parents when they've given so much to you.
~ Dwight Gooden
I've got no business giving advice to anyone. Even a fictional character.
~ Lisa Lutz
When you have so many things, and you have no idea why, you think, 'Maybe I'm supposed to do things for other people.'
~ Nikki Sixx
Its not the love you make. It's the love you give.
~ Nikola Tesla
You should also know that a true woman is more pleased by the pleasure she gives to a man than by the pleasure she takes from him.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
I don't think you tell someone you love them because you expect something. I think you tell them because you have something to give.
~ Nora Roberts
Taking love is easy—giving it is a bit harder, for some people anyway.
~ Nora Roberts
A FINE THING IT WAS TO GIVE SOMEONE THE LINGERING glow of memories.
~ Nora Roberts
Help," he said, "is giving part of yourself to somebody who comes to accept it willingly and needs it badly.
~ Norman Maclean
It's easy to look like Santa Claus when you don't have to buy the groceries.
~ Claire Cook
I do not want to be admired. I want to give, to be given, and solitude in which to unfold my possessions.
~ Virginia Woolf
I want to give, to be given, and solitude in which to unfold my possessions.
~ Virginia Woolf
That man, she thought, her anger rising in her, never gave; that man took.
~ Virginia Woolf
I may as well confess that I gave Luzhin my French governess, my pocket chess set, my sweet temper, and the stone of the peach I plucked in my own walled garden.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Kindness in words creates confidence; kindness in thinking creates profoundness; kindness in giving creates love.
~ Lao Tzu
Funny how his two special abilities—taking and giving life—were so opposite, but only the "good" one came with pain. He supposed it made sense; life fucking hurt.
~ Larissa Ione
Besides, there wasn't a breed of succubi out there that didn't steal something. Whether it was your seed, your soul, your life-force, or your heart, they sucked something out of you and rarely gave back. Sin definitely did not strike him as the giving kind.
~ Larissa Ione
Christmas is the season when people run out of money before they run out of friends.
~ Larry Wilde