Quotes About Giving

What I want in my life is compassion a flow between myself and others based on mutual giving from the heart.

Children, we should simplify our life's needs and use the resulting savings for charity.

Just try to give as much as you can through your daily life to yourself and the people around you.

Whenever anybody comes to me with a way that I can give something back, it would be ungrateful at this point in my life to not say yes.

Life is a wheel. The more you give, the more you get back.

Life is not about what you can accumulate. I learned to live when I learned to give.

Whatever you want in life, you've got to give away first.

I think that if you start teaching about giving back and helping other people young, that will be a given for your child their whole life.

We all have our own purpose in life and I feel very strongly that I have a bigger purpose than giving to just my immediate family and friends.

Service is what life is all about.

The basic question is not how much of our money we should give to God, but how much of God's money we should keep for ourselves.

Most important is the third question. When our grand purpose for living is more about serving others than ourselves, or when we focus what we do primarily to serve others, it matters less what we're chasing, or what we do to make a living. In the words of the former tennis great Arthur Ashe, "From what we get, we can make a living; from what we give, we can make a life.

The only way to truly get more out of life for yourself is to give part of yourself away.

The only way you can truly get more out of life for yourself is to give part of yourself away.

Conventional wisdom would say that the less you give, the more you have. The converse is true. The more you give, the more you have.

Love is not a goal you reach as part of your life's journey, but something you give

In life's journey, the things we keep we eventually lose, while the things we give away, we always have.

Now, I look at where I am now and I know what I wanna to do. What I would like to be able to do is to spend whatever time I have left and to give, and maybe some hope to others.

She has a sign in her office: TO WHOM MUCH IS GIVEN, MUCH IS REQUIRED.

We can only love others to the degree that we have opened our hearts to ourselves. It is not selfish to bless ourselves first, because if our heart remains closed we have nothing to give.

In the monastic mind, work is not for profit. In the monastic mentality work is for giving, not just for gaining. In monastic spirituality, other people have a claim on what we do. Work is not a private enterprise. Work is not to enable me to get ahead; the purpose of work is to enable me to get more human and to make my world more just.

Being cheerful on the phone is part of giving. Sure, we all have our problems, but why inflict them on our friends? I think I can count on the fingers of one hand the people who call up with a cheery, happy voice—and keep it that way. People with problems seem to find that telephone irresistible. When they're happy they just don't think about sharing it with other people.

We all think we have the formula for a good marriage—whether or not we've made it work ourselves—and I'm no exception. My recipe: Be a giver, not a taker.

But charm is not only being soft-spoken, relaxed, and at ease; it's wanting to be a giver. Wanting to be a good listener. Responding, communicating, having a genuine interest in people. It's having a good memory for amusing things so that you're a happy person to be with. Charm is grace — graciousness. And it all has to be real — good manners and good manners of the heart. Charm is a touch of magic. Try to make it a part of your way of life.