Quotes About Giving

May your charity increase as much as your wealth

While earning your daily bread, be sure you share a slice with those less fortunate.

remarked: [I]f our expenditure on comforts, luxuries, amusements , etc., is up to the standard common among those with the same income as our own, we are probably giving away too little. If our charities do not at all pinch or hamper us, I should say they are too small. There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditure excludes them.4

His love for me seemed to overflow my limits by its flood of wealth and service. But my necessity was more for giving than foe receiving; for love is a vagabond, who can make his flowers bloom in the wayside dust, better than in the crystal jars kept in the drawing-room.

The food which I get by begging is divine." After I had thought over what she said, I understood her meaning. When we get our food precariously as alms, we remember God the giver. But when we receive our food regularly at home, as a matter of course, we are apt to regard it as ours by right.

If things did not move on and vanish, we should see no beauty anywhere. If youth had only the heat of movement, it would get parched and withered. But there is ever the hidden tear, which keeps it fresh. The cry of the world is not only "I have," but also "I give." In the first dawning light of creation, "I have" was wedded to "I give." If this bond of union were to snap, then everything would go to ruin.

Jesus sowed good seeds into the lives of the people He touched. His walk was humble, meek, giving, and forgiving, and He taught His disciples to be the same way.

I think people instinctively know that their job is to give service and that they are part of a community. It had a great impact on me when my father walked the picket lines and I walked with him during the civil rights movement.

The best way of enjoying your money is to spend it on other people. I don't need much.

If you give, you will be blessed.

God has blessed me. I've been given a lot. I'm at peace with myself. It's time to give back.

What drives me is really just being able to be a blessing to someone, you know. I really enjoy that, and as much as I can do, I will.

I am convinced that success is not measured by what you get out of life, but by what you give back.

I wish for a world where success is measured not by what we take nor by what we get. Just by what we give. And who we become.

Family life is the backbone of mankind, and that life is dependent upon mutual giving, sharing, and receiving from each other. It entails the proper use of each other's successes and failures for mutual up-building.

Successful givers secure their oxygen masks before coming to the assistance of others. Although their motives may be less purely altruistic, their actions prove more altruistic, because they give more.

Being from the Sudan, there is a lot of stuff going on in Sudan, so I try to do a lot there with my foundation. That's my way of giving back.

Philanthropic humility is necessary if a giver is to do more good than harm, but it is not sufficient - philanthropic prudence is also needed.

May I suggest that people in many African countries could be suffering from donation fatigue?

Suggest your children try tithing - giving 10 percent of their allowance to a charity every month.

Over the last 15 years we've developed our brand into a global brand and we wanted our giving to follow suit.

When you give away large sums of money, you can cause as much damage as you may do good.

Today, we don't blink an eye when the world's wealthiest individuals donate enormous sums of money to charitable causes. In fact, we expect them to do so.

I think people like Bill Gates, who have given away enormous sums of money, are shining examples for all of us to follow.