Quotes About Giving

I'm most proud of making my mom happy. Really. Because she gave me life, and she supported me. So I want to be able to give back to her.

I tend to give to those who have helped me along the road of life: Blair Academy, Princeton University, our church, and several hospitals that got me here in one piece. On the community side, I've always been a big supporter of the United Way.

I think about giving back every single day, about the people who put so much effort into supporting my mum and me.

I am a huge believer in giving back and helping out in the community and the world. Think globally, act locally I suppose. I believe that the measure of a person's life is the affect they have on others.

The kids go to a Quaker school. Their father and I believe a lot in community, social responsibility, making sure you give to people less fortunate than you.

I think the most surprising thing about giving is it takes a while to find out what you're really interested in and what you really want to do.

I'm not a good gift-giver, other than the fact that I like surprising people. I usually give what people ask for but I try to make it seem like I'm not buying it.

To become a person that occasionally, strangers want to reward because they've felt I've given them something, is an amazement. Once a young woman passing by an outdoor booth where I was signing books, burst into a spontaneous jig at the sight of me. And that might be the pinnacle of my career. To be somehow an occasion for someone else's exuberance.

When you have what you want (inner peace), you are less distracted by your wants, needs, desires, and concerns. It's thus easier to concentrate, focus, achieve your goals, and to give back to others.

This was the first time I had come face-to-face with the other side of fundamentalism. The fundamentalism that I saw in my neighborhood was sexist and misogynistic and small-minded, but it wasn't violent. It was giving and loving and brotherly. It was about helping the poor, and since everybody was poor, that meant everybody helping everybody. There wasn't the kind of urban meanness you find in many American cities. It was as if a farm community had been transplanted to the city.

Love does not grown on trees or brought in the market, but if one wants to be LOVED one must first know how to give (unconditional)LOVE..

Sacrifice, by its nature, was predicated on giving, not receiving.

Sacrifice, by its nature, was predicated on giving, not receiving. " 'Sacrifice,' " he remembered

He makes a beggar first that first relieves him; Not us'rers make more beggars where they live Than charitable men that use to give.

I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.

The Life Triumphant is that which places what a man gives to the world in creative expression far ahead of that which he takes from it of the creations of others.

Where there's more of singing and less of sighing, Where there's more of giving and less of buying, And a man makes friends without half trying That's where the West begins.

For when down on the knees The man (or god) stretches the arms In giving, It is no accident the hands Are curled like bowls or cups, For he offers self, yet Begs it back again.

A rich man can afford to be generous to many.

Defer not charities till death; for certainly, if a man weigh it rightly, he that doth so is rather liberal of another man's than of his own.

To a gratefull man give mony when he askes.

Giving much to the poore, doth inrich a mans store. [Giving much to the poor doth increase a man's store.]

In Giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.

I bought a house for my mom, I bought a house for my dad, I bought a house for my sister.