Giving Quotes

Mother Teresa

It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.

Brian Tracy

Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Happiness gives you the freedom to enhance your ability to achieve success. Your choices in life are a direct reflection of your level of happiness. It's the sunshine for your soul that you need in order to grow

Dave Eggers

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.

Ryan Lilly

Legacy accounting: Will you have been an asset or a liability on the world's balance sheet?

Muhammad Imran Hasan

SMILE Is Not Just A Word.... It Means A Lot, Love, Trust, Warmth, Tenderness Etc, In Fact It Means WORLD.... So SMILE ALWAYS.... That Means, YOU Are Giving A WORLD To SOMEONE....

Isabella Poretsis

You should never do everything for free because you won't be able to survive alone or in comfort. But you should never charge for everything or too much because neither will the people who are giving you the money.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

Some strive to make themselves great. Others help others see and find their own greatness. It's the latter who really enrich the world we live in

George Alexiou

Kindness is a currency that can cover a multitude of interpersonal debts.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

It is one thing doing what you love for a living. It is another thing doing what you love with love

Suzy Kassem

Teach all men to fish, but first teach all men to be fair. Take less, give more.
Give more of yourself, take less from the world. Nobody owes you anything, you owe the world everything.

Amy Carmichael

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Antonio Porchia

I know what I have given you...
I do not know what you have received.

Chelsea Handler

My mother told me that life isn't always about pleasing yourself and that sometimes you have to do things for the sole benefit of another human being. I completely agreed with her, but reminded her that that was what blow jobs were for.

Kahlil Gibran

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.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that-warm things, kind things, sweet things-help and comfort and laughter-and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all.

Gautama Buddha

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.

Anna Quindlen

All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Quiet moments bring you closer to God. It's your silent time within your own private sanctuary. People have so many things to talk about, worry about, think about, without giving themselves peace within. Quiet moments give you access to areas of your brain which allows you to function proficiently.

Baris Gencel

Love and knowledge have one thing in common; both live on giving and sharing, more you share more it will be and make impacts over impacts, influence one to another. Love will not get lesser by giving and same goes to knowledge too..

Ben Carson

Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Dig Deep! When the task at hand seems to be very difficult. Dig Deep! Whenever you feel you're drifting away from your intended course. Dig Deep! When others doubt you and say it can't be done. Dig Deep! Whenever you feel like giving up. Dig Deep! When life throws you a curve ball. If you quit, you'll never hit that homerun

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Everything that looks good may not be good for you. In life, we all take chances. You must carefully examine the pros and cons. People often times have certain hidden agendas. And, you might not realize until you're in too deep.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Loving someone doesn't mean you have to bow down to them or drop everything and run to their relentless calls. They must understand and love you enough to give you the respect that you deserve. Loving someone doesn't mean you have to shower them with gifts all the time. Give them your honesty, hope, joy, and encouragement on a daily basis.

Bell Hooks

Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.

Allen R. Hunt

When you suffer, you are being conformed to the image of Jesus. When you pray, you are being made holy in the image of Jesus. When you quietly serve a person in need, you are being shaped into the image of Jesus. When you generously give, your heart is being remade into the image of Jesus, our Lord and Savior.

D'Andre Lampkin

People of God are always people who care about other people and it always comes at some cost.

Andy Andrews

When you know that everything matters - that every move counts as much as any other - you will begin living a life of permanent purpose.

Dana Arcuri

Our job on earth isn't to criticize, reject, or judge. Our purpose is to offer a helping hand, compassion, and mercy. We are to do unto others as we hope they would do unto us.

Kahlil Gibran

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

Baris Gencel

Love and knwoledge have one thing in common; both live on giving and sharing, more you share more it will be and make impacts over impacts, influence one to another. Love will not get lesser by giving, knowledge too..

Lailah Gifty Akita

Blessed are you who sow. Every seed you so plant, will grow into bountiful crops for great harvest.

Charles F. Glassman

Giving without expectation leads to receiving without limitation.

Roy Bennett

The more you give, the more you can give.

Manuel Corazzari

I feel like I am a millionaire not by the things I have but by the things I have given

Rasheed Ogunlaru

Compassion is even more powerful than courage. Sure, with courage you can conquer a world - but only with compassion can you heal and build it.

Bryant McGill

Giving is the master key to success, in all applications of human life.

Silvia Hartmann

The most precious thing I have to give is my time.

Cameron Conaway

How can I stand before you in silent symbols with open palms?

Richelle E. Goodrich

The greatest gift you can give is your time.  Not money, not items, not food, not pretty cards with handwritten sentiment, but time.  People need your presence.  The way you can help a soul the most is to simply be there.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Only a prostitute will trade her valuables for money, so you shouldn't sell your God given ideas and talents for money, because you don't own it in any way but should be by a divine authority.

Bryant McGill

By being beautiful and kind you are given favored status and opportunity in life.

Kahlil Gibran

Beauty is that which attracts your soul, and that which loves to give and not to receive.

Lisa Wingate

Help them to show the world that our greatness is not in things we do for ourselves, but in things we do for others.

Ashley Ormon

The greatest joy is in giving; after all, God gave Christ for us.

Shane Claiborne

God's people are not to accumulate stuff for tomorrow but to share indiscriminately with the scandalous and holy confidence that God will provide for tomorrow. Then we need not stockpile stuff in barns or a 401(k), especially when there is someone in need.

Randy Alcorn

Too often we assume that God has increased our income to increase our standard of living, when his stated purpose is to increase our standard of giving. (Look again at 2 Corinthians 8:14 and 9:11).

Andrew Murray

How different our standard is from Christ's. We ask how much a man gives. Christ asks how much he keeps.

Randy Alcorn

To turn the tide of materialism in the Christian community, we desperately need bold models of kingdom-centered living. Despite our need to do it in a way that doesn't glorify people, we must hear each other's stories about giving or else our people will not learn to give.

Randy Alcorn

Christians are God's delivery people, through whom he does his giving to a needy world. We are conduits of God's grace to others. Our eternal investment portfolio should be full of the most strategic kingdom-building projects to which we can disburse God's funds.

Randy Alcorn

A disciple does not ask, "How much can I keep?" but, "How much more can I give?" Whenever we start to get comfortable with our level of giving, it's time to raise it again.

Roberto Hogue

During sex, people are often way too focused on giving or taking to actually just celebrate this moment, be themselves completely, and rejoice in their own realities.

Donald L. Hicks

Have you noticed that everything in Nature, gives back to Nature?

Bryant McGill

Any self-realized being has access to the dynamic genius which nature gives all beings.

Lois McMaster Bujold

I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given.

Vivian Amis

Love is that which gives of itself, not because anyone needs it or deserves it, but because that is what love does.

Bryant McGill

By choosing positivity you become a contender for the human spirit giving hope to those in need.

Alcurtis Turner

You shouldn't just give during Christmas and Thanksgiving you should be giving all the time.

Alcurtis Turner

We are all we got in this world why not help each other.

Olaotan Fawehinmi

There isn't much difference between "giving" and "leaving". While the former will ALWAYS come back to you, the latter will only do if it was meant to be yours in the first place.

Richelle E. Goodrich

When I reach out, you take my hand. 
When I smile, you mirror the expression.
When I triumph, you glory as if it were your own.
When I fail, you point to the light at the end.
When I need, you tenderly provide.
When I cry, you kiss away my tears.
When I suffer,  you bleed.
And you wonder why I love you?

Adeosun Olamide

In the end we have nothing except all we gave.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

It's not the depth of your intellect that will comfort you or transform your world. Only the richness of your heart and your generosity of spirit can do that

Mother Teresa

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.

Crystal DeLarm Clymer

Recycle kisses, hugs and smiles, they never go out of style and everybody needs one.

Angie Karan

A most loving virtue of all, is that of a cheerful giver with the right attitude of LOVE! Giving is not just a random act of kindness. It is an investment in humanity. In return you become more than yourself, you transcend.

Terry A O'Neal

All I ever really wanted to do was arouse souls through my writing and enjoy my journey to becoming one with myself and with the world.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Contrary to popular opinion, we are all a vast brotherhood of human beings whose very survival hinges not on what we keep, but on what we give. And it is in the giving that we not only survive to live another day, but we thrive to celebrate another day.

Franco Santoro

Our greatest dreams and desires abide in the mental and spiritual realm. In order to transfer them in the physical plane we need to invert subject and object. You will receive from the world what you deeply long to receive the day when you give to the world what you deeply long to receive. Today could be that day.

Amit Ray

Life has only one equation. The equation of giving.

Stephen R. Donaldson

It is wrong to ask for more than you give freely. In this way, we come to resemble what we hate.

Michael Bassey Johnson

A poor man knows the true value of money and will not dare waste it, but a rich man is extravagant and always looking for an opportunity to empty his pockets.

Solange Nicole

Everyone wants a piece of you. The trick is what piece to give.

Shashank Rayal

When you are Happy with Someone,
You never cares about those, who are Unhappy without you.

Michael Bassey Johnson

It is unfortunate that when you want to make some people feel like human beings, they begin to take you as an animal.

Michael Bassey Johnson

You will know who truly loves you when you ask them to do an uncoventional favor.

Cristiane Serruya

We had everything: love, attention, the best money could buy, but we were taught that we had to first give to then receive.

Jon M. Huntsman Sr.

Wealth isn't always measured in dollar signs. We each have time, talent and creativity, all of which can be powerful forces for positive change. Share your blessings in whatever form they come and to whatever level you have been blessed.

Michael Bassey Johnson

We cherish reprobates, not for their cruelty, but for their little show of patronage.

Steve Goodier

Money is not the only commodity that is fun to give. We can give time, we can give our expertise, we can give our love or simply give a smile. What does that cost? The point is, none of us can ever run out of something worthwhile to give.

John Wesley

Not, how much of my money will I give to God, but, how much of God’s money will I keep for myself?

Randy Alcorn

God comes right out and tells us why he gives us more money than we need. It's not so we can find more ways to spend it. It's not so we can indulge ourselves and spoil our children. It's not so we can insulate ourselves from needing God's provision. It's so we can give and give generously (2 Corinthians 8:14; 9:11)

Randy Alcorn

..tithing isn't something I do to clear my conscience so I can do whatever I want with the 90 percent-it also belongs to God! I must seek his direction and permission for whatever I do with the full amount. I may discover that God has different ideas than I do.

John Piper

Does not the Old Testament promise that God will prosper His people? Indeed! God increases our yield so that by giving we can prove that our yield is not our god. God does not prosper a man’s business so he can move from a Ford to a Cadillac. God prospers a business so that thousands of unreached peoples can be reached with the gospel.

Randy Alcorn

Given our abundance, the burden of proof should always be on keeping, not giving. Why would you not give? We err by beginning with the assumption that we should keep or spend the money God entrusts to us. Giving should be the default choice. Unless there is a compelling reason to spend it or keep it, we should give it.

Randy Alcorn

God prospers me not to raise my standard of living, but to raise my standard of giving.

Andy Stanley

[God] wants you to go home, look at your bucket of seed, and determine in your heart how much you'd like to sow. He wants you to consider thoughtfully your current circumstances, your life, your potential, and your finances. He wants you to involve your family. He wants you to pray about it. And then He wants you to come up with a plan.

Toni Sorenson

If you’re giving to get, all you’ll receive is disappointment. But if you’re giving to give, all you’ll receive is joy.

Steve Goodier

But let me offer a word of caution. If you choose to give from your heart, be careful. The most incredible feeling might just overwhelm you. And if you continue in this behavior, that feeling may become permanent.

George Alexiou

Success follows those who champion a cause greater than themselves.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

By simple mathematics giving is key to the world you seek to live in. If I take I alone gain. If I give or share then two at least are enriched.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

I will not find myself, nor will I obtain any precarious morsel of life in giving all of life to myself. If I am ever to find these things, I must first be willing to give these things away at the very moment that I come into possession of them.

Markus Zusak

You should give it to Max, Liesel. See if you can leave it on the bedside table, like all the other things." Liesel watched him as if he'd gone insane. "How, though?" Lightly, he tapped her skull with his knuckles. "Memorize it. Then write it down for him.

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