logo

Quotes About Giving

Don't say that you want to give, but go ahead and give! You'll never catch up with a mere hope.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If we have been able to give happiness to a soul-even for a minute-it makes our life blessed.
~ Mata Amritanandamayi
An essential idea is that if you give to some person or endeavor in life, you will make that more important.
~ George Weinberg
The only way you can truly get more out of life for yourself is to give part of yourself away.
~ Jim Stovall
It seems like the more I give the more I get, and that is the way it is supposed to go in life.
~ Dolly Parton
What we employ in charitable uses during our lives is given away from ourselves; what we bequeath at our death is given from others only, as our nearest relations.
~ Francis Atterbury
In one equation you can solve all the puzzles of life. It is the equation of giving.
~ Amit Ray
As Coleridge said, "We receive but what we give." The happy life is a life of continual generosity in which we go out to meet and acclaim the world.
~ Gerald Brenan
The only thing you can do with your life is give it away. The best, happiest moments in your life are always when you're giving something away.
~ Wayne Dyer
Forgiveness is the giving and so the receiving of life. the latter may be an impulse of a moment of heat; whereas the former is a cold and deliberate choice of the heart.
~ George MacDonald
Christmas means giving. The Father gave his Son, and the Son gave his life. Without giving there is no true Christmas, and without sacrifice there is no true worship.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Allow your team to incorporate giving into their life through their job. Not only do employees stay around a lot longer, they do a lot more good.
~ Blake Mycoskie
To give! To give without hope of recompense, without question, without fear! That was the message of life.
~ Katherine Cecil Thurston
The real joy in life comes from giving. It comes from service. It comes from doing things for other people. That is what is so powerful about this. Nothing will make you happier than giving.
~ Marc Benioff
I think the great livers, the people who are fully self-actualizing and alive, are the great givers.
~ Mark Victor Hansen
The fullness of life comes from an identity built on giving and on joy.
~ Mary Pipher
Service is the key to everything in life.
~ Russell Simmons
I decree today that life is simply taking and not giving, England is mine and it owes me a living.
~ Steven Morrissey
Labor is service and service is life. And when we serve something more than ourselves, we feel alive.
~ Tony Robbins
Life is not a gift to be received, but rather, infinite gifts that we can give.
~ Benjamin F Sullivan
Somehow not only for ChristmasBut all the long year through,The joy that you give to othersIs the joy that comes back to you.
~ E. B. White
For all that ye may ever keep is just what you give away, and that you give away is advice, counsel, manner of life you live yourself." The manner in which you treat your fellow man, your patience, your brotherly love, your kindness, your gentleness. That you give away, that is all that ye may possess in those other realms of consciousness.
~ Edgar Cayce