logo

Quotes About Giving

What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
~ Leo Buscaglia
What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for eternity.
~ Leo Buscaglia
Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.
~ Leo Buscaglia
Tithing is a way to right the ship quickly. Instead of spending every dime, deny yourself a little and save ten percent of your income one month. Then just wait for an intuition of whom to give it to. You'll get one. Someone who needs an angel will cross your path, and you'll get the thrill of having the means to be of service. And again, it will just accelerate the flow of help coming back to you. You'll get more opportunities to be successful.
~ James Redfield
Bennett wasn't like her first husband. After spending so many years with Jeremy, Ivy was finally beginning to realize just how selfish her first husband had been. She had been the giver in the relationship, attending to his every need in the house.
~ Jan Moran
If you will thank me, let it be for yourself alone. That the wish of giving happiness to you, might add force to the other inducements which led me on, I shall not attempt to deny. But your family owe me nothing. Much as I respect them, I believe, I thought only of you.
~ Jane Austen
I must fill myself with sorrow if I am to give you what you want.
~ Jane Yolen
But celebrity really doesn't mean anything unless you use it for finding some way to give back and I've always felt that way.
~ Judith Light
Like most people, I like to give what I like to get. Unlike most people, I still like to get what I got in college - books, magazine subscriptions, CDs, T-shirts.
~ Tom Junod
Much as I would like to give out as much as I can, I do recognize that my resources are not unlimited, and therefore, it is imperative that we are able to determine the sustainability and effectiveness of the causes we support. In so doing, we can ensure that our resources are put to the best use.
~ Vincent Tan
Most disciplines invite us to more mindfulness, and more contentment. Not by consuming more externally, but by harvesting more from within, and by sharing more without. Neurosciences and behavioural sciences increasingly corroborate this ancient wisdom - joy can come from giving, and unlimited happiness from bonhomie.
~ Rohini Nilekani
What about feeling sorry for those who pay the taxes? Those who are people that no one feels sorry for. They are asked to give and give until they have no more to give. And when they say 'enough,' they are called selfish.
~ Rush Limbaugh
The news of me giving a Rolls Royce to Salman is completely untrue. If anyone should be giving Rolls Royce then he should be giving to me.
~ Sajid Nadiadwala
Being charitable provides a boost to your psyche that is tough to replicate in any other way. But note that although any charity will happily take your money, you can give in other ways and still reap the same happiness reward. Volunteering and donating your old or unused belongings have the same result.
~ Jean Chatzky
In terms of instilling the values of mental toughness and work ethic, discipline is the gift that keeps on giving.
~ William Baldwin
Giving should be a part of your routine, just like working out, eating, and sleeping.
~ M. Night Shyamalan
Love has been called the most effective motivational force in all the world. When love is at work in us, it is remarkable how giving and forgiving, understanding and tolerant we can be.
~ Charles R. Swindoll
You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.
~ Samuel Johnson
May your hands be an extension of your heart and may you do the work of love with them.
~ Aja Monet
After you have found inner peace you have endless energy - the more you give, the more you receive. After you have found your calling, you work easily and joyously. You never get tired.
~ Peace Pilgrim
I work very hard, but when God opens that door for you - when life opens that door for you, I should say - I think it's important to be giving, to return the love back.
~ Lady Gaga
Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.
~ Khalil Gibran
The Tapas and the other hard Yogas that were practiced in other Yugas do not work now. What is needed in this Yuga is giving, helping others.
~ Swami Vivekananda
People who have committed to a service/advocacy role will tell you that some of the sublimest pleasure they have ever experienced comes in the context of that work. You get way more than you give.
~ Charles Garfield