Quotes About Giving

If getting is the key to your happiness your key will open few doors. If giving is the key to your happiness you will find few doors locked.

When I was a little girl, I remember carrying my orange UNICEF carton with me as I went Trick-or-Treating.

Unite liberality with a just frugality; always reserve something for the hand of charity; and never let your door be closed to the voice of suffering humanity.

Suppose you endow a charity, or university. You could put your name on it, but you could also endow it in honor of some teacher you had. People differ. There are people who prefer to be anonymous in their giving, or to put somebody else's name on it.

The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the other parts.

Charity always feels better to the donor than to the recipient.

Generosity and gratitude are inseparably linked.

Most people are weak and frightened, and run from anything which could be upsetting. Most people, also, are takers and not givers.

Stars give so much to the world without demanding payment. Be likewise.

The only place you will find love before sacrifice is in the dictionary.

The best the world has to offer comes from the best you have to give to others.

Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.

Sharing is wonderful, but giving - I give, you take - often maintains the power status quo.

Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.

Giving is a really big thing around Christmas, as well it should be. Christmas is about giving, and it all stems from the greatest gift the world has ever received - the gift of Jesus Christ.

We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that is alive around us, and reconcile ourselves with our environment.

You have to live life to the fullest. I don't want to slow down. I want the giving to be stepped up. So the older I get, the less I will be involved in the business side, the more in the philanthropic side.

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.

She didn't have enough patience to try to explain to Christine the proper way to think about money. Among the old people, a person's status had never been determined by how much wealth he could accumulate, but how much he brought back to give away.

People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes.

The sum and definition of religion is, be rich in works of mercy, be helpful to the bodies and souls of others. Scatter your golden seeds; let the lamp of your profession be filled with the oil of charity. Be merciful in giving and forgiving. 'Be ye merciful, as your heavenly Father is merciful'.

At first, it's hard for us to give to others, so we give a carrot from one hand to the other. Then we give away simple things, such as a jar of thumbtacks. Then, we grow a little bit and give away things that we hold more dear. Later, we can share our time or whatever else is more difficult for us to give. When we eventually become Tara, we will be able to give everything effortlessly and joyfully.

Sacrifice becomes an opportunity to express our delight in God. What we give up seems small in comparison to what we're gaining.