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Quotes About Giving

I am grateful. And I am forgiving. I am giving. My life is beautiful, creative, productive, prosperous and magical.
~ Robin S. Sharma
a little bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses.
~ Robin S. Sharma
La cosa más noble que puedes hacer es dar a los demás.
~ Robin S. Sharma
I don't think about what I'll get from someone else. Instead, all I care about is what I can give. And that, my friend, has made me a very happy man.
~ Robin Sharma
Todos los grandes hombres y mujeres del mundo son personas que dan, no toman.
~ Robin Sharma
Burke saw society as an association of the dead, the living and the unborn. Its binding principle is not contract, but something more akin to love. Society is a shared inheritance for the sake of which we learn to circumscribe our demands, to see our own place in things as part of a continuous chain of giving and receiving, and to recognize that the good things we inherit are not ours to spoil.
~ Roger Scruton
The most perplexing issue for Rockefeller was how to square philanthropy with self-reliance.
~ Ron Chernow
and I could not think of giving an answer until I have looked over the books of the firm and have some idea of the business and of the methods by which it is done.
~ Ron Chernow
The only thing removed by Rockefeller were the worn carpets, which he donated to the needy through a local church.
~ Ron Chernow
Like many donors, Rockefeller wished to give freely, but Harper was constantly trying to speed up the process.
~ Ron Chernow
It had been everything he had dreamed it would be, multiplied by a million. She wasn't a myth. She was a living breathing creature, hard and strong and sinewy and perfumed, warm and shy and giving.
~ Lee Child
Setea dependentului de a pl?cea const? în dorinÈ›a incontrolabil? de a da f?r? a primi, iar r?spunsul pozitiv al celor care primesc aceast? atenÈ›ie reprezint? doza.
~ Les Barbanell
I have been very fortunate to be successful in business, and I believe that it is right that people who have this type of wealth should give something back into society.
~ Alisher Usmanov
Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined.
~ James Cook
A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.
~ Bill Gates
We can only keep what we have by being willing to freely give it away; a paraphrase of Jesus Christ.
~ Anonymous
Happiness depends on what you can give, not on what you can get.
~ Chinmayananda Saraswati
Life is ever giving of Itself. We must receive, utilize and extend the gift. Success and prosperity are spiritual attributes belonging to all people.
~ Ernest Holmes
Giving is an essential for spiritual unfoldment, for until we give and give abundantly, we don't really realize that we are not the giver; we are just a channel for giving.
~ Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
To get joy, we must give it and to keep joy, we must scatter it.
~ John Templeton
There is a spiritual aspect to our lives - when we give, we receive-when a business does something good for somebody, that somebody feels good about them!
~ Ben Cohen
I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
~ Maya Angelou
Giving connects two people, the giver and the receiver, and this connection gives birth to a new sense of belonging.
~ Deepak Chopra
There are those who give and know not pain in giving, nor do they seek joy, nor give with mindfulness of virtue; They give as in yonder valley the myrtle breathes its fragrance into space.
~ Khalil Gibran