Quotes About Giving

I was constantly told and challenged to live my life as a warrior. As a warrior, you assume responsibility for yourself. The warrior humbles himself. And the warrior learns the power of giving.

The real power of money is the power to give it away.

But shouldn't all of us on earth give the best we have to others and offer whatever is in our power?

To give away money is an easy matter and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man's power nor an easy matter.

I can't see giving up real books," she said. "And I love that I can give away my books after I've read them. Think of the first edition of The Magic Mountain I'm giving Nico. It was printed along with the first copy that went to Mann himself. It's got a history.

Philanthropy is the thing that I am really excited about, and having success means I can do more.

Unhappiness is the hunger to get; happiness is the hunger to give...If the individual should set out for a single day to give happiness, to make life happier, brighter and sweeter, not for himself but for others, he would find a wondrous revelation of what happiness really is.

True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

If expecting something in return is your reason for giving, you are really not giving- you're swapping. If you receive something in return for your gift, what you receive is a bonus - not a repayment of a debt.

The secret of successfully giving yourself away lies not so much in calculated actions as in cultivating friendly, warm-hearted impulses. You have to train yourself to obey giving impulses on the instant -- before they get a chance to cool. When you give impulsively, something happens inside of you that makes you glow, sometimes for hours.

Giving is taking is giving.

For it is in giving that we receive. -St. Francis

You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you. -John Bunyan

We give with joy in our hearts. We give out of our humble circumstances. We give out of our wealth.

It's not how much we give but how much we put into giving. -Mother Teresa

One gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want. -The Teacher, The Book of Proverbs

Remember, only what you give can God multiply back. If you give nothing, and even if God were to multiply it, it would still be nothing!

Give something, however small, to the one in need. For it is not small to one who has nothing. Neither is it small to God, if we have given what we could.

Any fear associated with giving to God's kingdom is irrational. It's on par with a farmer who, out of fear of losing his seed, refuses to plant his fields.

What is the chief end of giving? To glorify God and enjoy Him forever.

God gives us things to share, God doesn't give us things to hold.

If you do not give the tenth part to God, he will take the nine parts.

God asks the best we have Because He gave the Best He had.