Quotes About Giving

I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.

If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.

We were guided by what we had learned from the charitable giving we had done over several decades. One principle was to make the gift transformative, with an impact well beyond what you'd expect from the monetary amount. We also wanted to fund projects that wouldn't happen without our support. These conditions were met.

Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.

The Degree of Loving is Measured by the Degree of Giving

Feeding the birds is a fabulous and glorious charity since they neither can speak nor ask.

Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

All I have is a gift from the giver. What I do with the gift is my way of giving thanks.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively. For what keeps our interest in life and makes us look forward to tomorrow is giving pleasure to other people.

I learned something which has stood me in good stead many times—the most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.

When you give joy to other people, you get more joy in return. You should give a good thought to happiness that you can give out.

Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they're trying to find someone who's going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.

The gift of giving is to see the receiver give to someone else.

For true love is inexhaustible the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.

In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.

Musonius Rufus writes that the soul is strengthened by first reminding ourselves of the right perspectives and then moulding our actions to this understanding, so that we stop pursuing things that are not truly good and stop avoiding things that only seem bad. In this way, we 'won't welcome pleasure and avoid pain … won't love living and fear death, and … in the case of money, [we] won't honor receiving over giving.

Moneda que está en la mano quizá se deba guardar: la monedita del alma se pierde si no se da.

If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.

A foolish person always thinks that by following and supporting the selfish people can fulfill own wish, but eventually ends up giving them even that which is her/ his.

A good person is like a tree, a living being which is giving own things to others only, so anyone who advises the people to be not like a tree can be easily understood to be who s/he is