Giving Quotes

"Those of us who are blessed, we owe it to our fellow citizens and folks who we are around to do something special for them."

"Now that we have a bit of money, it is nice to get gifts for people. Before I was getting and not really giving."

"Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving."

Amy Grant

"When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed."

"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one."

Mother Teresa

"No one has ever become poor by giving."

Anne Frank

"Giving is not just about making a donation. It is about making a difference."

Kathy Calvin

"From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life."

Arthur Ashe

"Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more."

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"Trees do not eat their own fruit, nor do lakes drink their own water; the wise gather wealth for the good of others."

Rahim

"The giving of love is an education in itself."

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

Katharine Hepburn

"Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery."

Fulton J. Sheen

"Love knows no bargaining. Love is always the giver and never the taker."

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

Simone de Beauvoir

"There are two kinds of gratitude: the sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give."

Edwin Arlington Robinson

"Let's not expect gratitude. Then, if we get some occasionally, it will come as a delightful surprise."

Dale Carnegie

"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal."

Albert Pike

"Trees bear fruits only to be eaten by others; the fields grow grains, but they are consumed by the world. In such giving, there is little space for selfishness."

Munshi Premchand

"You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give."

Kahlil Gibran

"Love never claims, it ever gives."

"Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself."

Kahlil Gibran

"If you wish to be loved, love."

Seneca

"Our humanity comes to its fullest bloom in giving."

Henri Nouwen

"Love is, above all, the gift of oneself."

Jean Anouilh