Quotes About Giving

“It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.”
― Mother Teresa

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”
― Charles Dickens

“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.”
― Winston Churchill

“You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.”
― Mother Teresa

“The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted, yet everyone takes the happy person for granted. No one is careful of his feelings or tries to keep his spirits high. He seems self-sufficient; he becomes a cushion for others. And because happiness seems unforced, that person usually gets no credit.”
― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun

“A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“The only gift I have to give, is the ability to receive. If giving is a gift, and it surely is, then my gift to you is to allow you to give to me. 
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― Jarod Kintz, The Titanic would never have sunk if it were made out of a sink.

“Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.”
― Ben Carson

“Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“The earth does not belong to us. We belong to the earth.”
― Chief Seattle, The Chief Seattle's Speech

“You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.”
― Amy Carmichael

“I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“I must be willing to give whatever it takes to do good to others. This requires that I be willing to give until it hurts. Otherwise, there is no true love in me, and I bring injustice, not peace, to those around me.”
― Mother Teresa

“For it is in giving that we receive.”
― St. Francis of Assisi

“Give, but give until it hurts.”
― Mother Teresa

“As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way.”
― Mary Anne Radmacher

“You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“Give freely to the world these gifts of love and compassion. Do not concern yourself with how much you receive in return, just know in your heart it will be returned.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“I know what I have given you...
I do not know what you have received.”
― Antonio Porchia

“Speak the truth do not become angered and give when asked, even be it a little. By these three conditions one goes to the presence of the gods.”
― Gautama Buddha

“The bank of love is never bankrupt.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.”
― George Eliot

“Secrets. Funny how, when you're about to be given something precious, something you've wanted for a long time, you suddenly feel nervous over taking it.
Everyone wants more than anything to be allowed into someone else's most secret self. Everyone wants to allow someone into their most secret self. Everyone feels so alone inside that their deepest wish is for someone to know their secret being, because then they are alone no longer. Don't we all long for this? Yet when it's offered it's frightening, because you might not live up to the desires of the one who bestows the gift. And frightening because you know that accepting such a gift means you'll want-perhaps be expected- to offer a similar gift in return. Which means giving your *self* away. And what's more frightening than that?”
― Aidan Chambers, This is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn

“Gracious acceptance is an art - an art which most never bother to cultivate. We think that we have to learn how to give, but we forget about accepting things, which can be much harder than giving.... Accepting another person's gift is allowing him to express his feelings for you.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, Love Over Scotland

“You have what I can afford to give. You are a panhandler, begging for anything, and I am the man walking briskly by, tossing a quarter or so into your paper cup. I can afford to give you this. This does not break me.”
― Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

“It's bad enough in life to do without something YOU want; but confound it, what gets my goat is not being able to give somebody something you want THEM to have.”
― Truman Capote, A Christmas Memory

“Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They’re never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.”
― Lenore Hershey

“[G]iving yourself some loving attention is not selfish. It is sensible. If you feel loved and cherished--even if it is only by yourself--then you will have more love to give to others, too. (83)”
― Penelope Quest, Reiki for Life: A Complete Guide to Reiki Practice

“Generosity is not giving me that which I need that you do, but it is giving me that which you need more that I do.”
― Kahlil Gibran