Quotes About Giving

The very best thing you can give someone is what they want.

Giving is the business of the rich.

When you incorporate giving into your business, you attract the most amazing partners.

When you incorporate giving into your business in an authentic and transparent way, your customers become your best marketers.

For to give is the business of the rich. [Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.]

We need to get over our reluctance to speak openly about the good we do. Silent giving will not change a culture that deems it sensible to spend all your money on yourself and your family, rather than to help those in greater need—even though helping others is likely to bring more fulfillment in the long run.

Asking people to give more than almost anyone else gives risks turning them off. It might cause some to question the point of striving to live an ethical life at all. Daunted by what it takes to do the right thing, they may ask themselves why they are bothering to try. To avoid that danger, we should advocate a level of giving that will lead to the greatest possible positive response.

If you give out of fear or guilt, your self-esteem is not enriched; indeed, it is only diminished. You aren't really giving; the other person is taking. You are being taken advantage of, with your consent.

All human giving is fiction giving. Only the Absolute nonfictively owns; hence only the Absolute can nonfictively give; hence the mortal who believes that he or she owns, stands no chance of receiving what the Absolute has to nonfictively give.

I gave him everything from my lunches I hate, which is called Charity.

According to the Bible, the antidote to materialism is generosity.

Ted is smart and good-looking, but he doesn't use it to good effect, like a rich person that never gives to charity.

You just take and take don´t you? Out there with your thumb in the air—not a care in the world, just grabbing whatever you can get. Yes, sir, you just take and take until you´re ready to burst. But what about giving? Did you ever think about that? Of course not—you´re too busy taking, Mr. Handout, Mr. Gimmee, Gimmee, Gimmee.

Not giving is no different than taking.

Doing something nice for him was easy and immediate and didn't lead to the mountain of junk mail you're punished with whenever you give to an established charity.

The more you expect from life, the more your expectations will be fulfilled. By laughing, you do not use up your laughter, but increase your store of it. The more you love, the more you will be loved. The more you give, the more you will receive. Life proves that truth every hour, every day. And life continues to surprise.

El deseo debe estar presente para que tenga lugar el acto de dar.

The process of giving is an essential aspect of reaching the advanced stages of kundalini unfoldment and continuing progress on the path of yoga. The more we are able to give, the more we are able to receive in terms of our own spiritual evolution.

in the trees this afternoon, he was a giver of bread and teddy bears.

Most of the money I made has gone back to Africa or is going back to Africa.

I had a chance to make a living at the thing I love, and I have always appreciated that, and I have always wanted to give something back.

Being charitable one day a year might make do-gooders like Jimmie feel all soft and gooey inside, but people needed to eat three hundred and sixty-five days a year, not only on December twenty-fifth.

He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow.

There is a certain grandeur and nobility in administering to another's need out of one's fullness and plenty.