Quotes About Giving

Generosity is a virtue, but unlimited generosity is a fast route to bankruptcy.

We each have a personal myth, a vision of who we really are and what we want. Health means that part of what you want is to give to others.

rule of four when it came to gift giving—something you want and something you need, something to wear and something to read.

Lijden is het grootste geven. Te geven aan wie men liefheeft, het leed van zijn lijdende ziel, is de grootste gift, die te geven is.

I've been so bothered with my property, that I'm tired of it, and don't mean to save up any more, but give it away as I go along, and then nobody will envy me, or want to steal it, and I shan't be suspecting folks and worrying about my old cash.

Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents.

I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept anything without wishing I had given it away.

He would be the object lesson, the walking warning to the cadets. What happened when you gave in to temptation. When you listened to the fallen angels of your nature.

Sometimes it's more generous to take than give, he said. "How?" Caroline asked. "To let the other person give you what he has to offer. If you're always the one giving, you never have to feel disappointed, because you don't expect anything in return. But it's miserly in its own way. Because you never leave yourself open or give the other person a chance.

You give me being. But what I love is the fact that you give it to me. Staying there is of little matter to me. I like your giving me a mirror which is not made of ice. Your flowing into me, and me into you. Receiving you melting, molten, and giving that flow back to you. Without end." -- Luce Irigaray in 'Elemental Passions

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

In both relationships, there were only two people: one who gave and one who sacrificed

Getters generally don't get happiness; givers get it.

John Wesley: "Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as ever you can.

You have not lived a perfect day, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you. No man becomes rich unless he enriches others.

Cuando su mentalidad es dar más de lo que toma, lo fuerza a pensar más en los demás que en usted mismo.

Usted no habrá vivido el día de hoy hasta que haya hecho algo por alguien que nunca podrá pagarle. –JOHN BUNYAN

Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore wrote, "All that is not given is lost.

Jesuit theologian Pierre Teilhard de Chardin said, "The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others." Anyone who has unselfishly helped another person knows this to be true.

People who give with no strings attached almost always have an abundance mentality. They are generous because they believe that if they give, they will not run out of resources. Pastor and former college professor Henri Nouwen states, "When we refrain from giving, with a scarcity mentality, the little we have will become less. When we give generously, with an abundance mentality, what we give away will multiply.

GIVE FIRST, NO MATTER WHAT YOUR CIRCUMSTANCES MAY BE.

If you are willing to make success about giving rather than gaining, you will find your life to be greatly rewarding.

No man becomes rich unless he enriches others. —ANDREW CARNEGIE THE