Quotes About Giving

The great thing about a culture of givers is that's not a delusion - it's reality.

My advice for folks on networking is give, give, give. You will later receive. But you are really planting these seeds. Some of them will die, and they won't become anything. Many of them will take many, many years before they pay off for you if at all.

When you feel sexy or sensuous, you naturally want to open up and give, and I think that comes from being able to receive love and desire.

When you give, you receive.

With my charity Big Dreams For Kids, I believe the more you give, the more you receive.

Measure yourself and your success by what you give to others, not what you receive in return.

Give and ye shall receive.

The way myself and my brothers have been brought up is that you don't give to receive, you give to give, and that is the way life is.

The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them.

You have to give to be able to receive.

It is better to give blood but receive cash than the other way around.

Christian children should be taught at an early age that everything they receive is because of God's grace and love. They will grow up more appreciative and begin to understand that they, too, must have a relationship with Christ. Christian children should also be taught how to give.

That point of life when I learned I could cook, that always made me understand what cooks felt like feeding other people. It's okay to receive, but it's really cool to give, so food is to me sexy because it's the fact that someone is giving it to someone else.

To give is one of the greatest gifts one could ever receive.

I knew everything and received everything. But real happiness, is giving.

In the future, I would like to become a missionary. I'd like to go to countries where I have received much love as a musician and personally return all of that love.

I try to give back some of the good fortune that I've received.

It is difficult to help a man without hurting his pride. Everyone wants to be a giver and not a receiver.

We learn, grow and become compassionate and generous as much through exile as homecoming, as much through loss as gain, as much through giving things away as in receiving what we believe to be our due.

I always want to be a person who challenges herself to be a better person and spends her time giving rather than receiving.

Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.

I love giving gifts and I love receiving them. I really like giving little kids extravagant gifts. You see their little faces light up and they get excited. If it's a really good gift, I love receiving it, like jewels, small islands.

Parenting is love, sure, but it's as much about receiving love as it is giving it. Parenthood is a kind of vanity.

With the many blessings I've received through football, my wife, Ashli, and I started the Mike Evans Family Foundation to be a blessing to others. We don't do it for the recognition. It just makes us feel good to give back.