43 Giving Quotes

It is when we ask for love less and begin giving it more that the basis of human love is revealed to us.

Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.

Man's abiding happiness is not in getting anything but in giving himself up to what is greater than himself, to ideas which are larger than his individual life, the idea of his country, of humanity, of God.

For me, success is being able to give back to your friends, your family, your community, those in need and the world entire.

You must remember always to give, of everything you have. You must give foolishly even. You must be extravagant. You must give to all who come into your life. Then nothing and no one shall have power to cheat you of anything, for if you give to a thief, he cannot steal from you, and he himself is then no longer a thief. And the more you give, the more you will have to give.

To me who dreamed so much as a child, who made a dreamworld in which I was the heroine of an unending story, the lives of people around me continued to have a certain storybook quality. 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.

I had been educated with free scholarships. I went to nine different universities, always at public expense, and when you have that experience, you are almost obligated to give it back. It's as simple as that.

We let it in We give it out And in the end What's it all about? It must be love.

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me. It is an uncomfortable doctrine which the true ethics whisper into my ear. You are happy, they say; therefore you are called upon to give much.

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

Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.

Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to somebody else.

Generosity: 'Take without forgetting, and give without remembering.'

For we accomplish these things not by spending money but by making the correct choice. Almsgiving above all else requires money, but even this shines with a brighter luster when the alms are given from our poverty. The widow who paid in the two mites was poorer than any human, but she outdid them all.

Something given that way.

A rubberband bouncing back to life A rubberband bend the beat If I could learn to give like a rubberband I'd be back on my feet...

What good is life unless you give it away - unless you give it for a better world, even if you never see that world but have only carried your grain to the building site.

'The decay of giving is morrored in the distressing invention of gift-article, based on the assumption that one does not know what to give because one really does not want to.'

nothing false and possible is love (who's imagined, therefore limitless) love's to giving as to keeping's give; as yes is to if, love is to yes

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

'From what we get, we can make a living: what we give, however makes a life.'

'Give,' said the little stream, 'Give, oh give, give, oh give,' As it hurried down the hill. 'I am small, I know, but wherever I go The fields grow greener still.'

When I did Bangladesh, I spent a couple of months, every day and night, on the telephone, trying to trick people into doing it and making a commitment. Nowadays, you phone somebody up, and it's an accepted part of life that every so often you give something to charity.

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

I'm a very big believer in the idea that if a Jew lives like a Jew and, as it is written, sets aside tithes or a fifth of his income - then the Holy One, blessed be he, pays him back. I know that from my personal experience. The more I give every year, the more I have.

The magi, as you know, were wise men - wonderfully wise men - who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents. Being wise, their gifts were no doubt wise ones, possibly bearing the privilege of exchange in case of duplication. And here I have lamely related to you the uneventful chronicle of two foolish children in a flat who most unwisely sacrificed for each other the greatest treasures of their house. But in a last word to the wise of these days let it be said that of all who give gifts these two were the wisest. Of all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.

People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves.

As it is more blessed to give than receive, so it must be more blessed to receive than to give back.

We should wipe two words from our vocabulary: gratitude and charity. In real life, help is given out of friendship, or it is not valued; it is received from the hand of friendship, or it is resented.

If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.

That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.

We are here to add what we can to, not to get what we can from, Life.

You give before you get.