Giving Quotes

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

~ Aidan Chambers

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

~ Vivian Amis

I think I possess because I do not try to give,Trying to give, I see that I have nothing.

~ René Daumal

If sacrifice is not the theme of my life, there’s no sense telling the story.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If the baser instinct of rampant self-preservation adamantly refuses to surrender itself to the infinitely greater call of self-sacrifice, in attempting to save our lives we will have in reality completely destroyed our lives.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If you want meaning in your life you must give your life meaning.

~ Bryant Mcgill

God pours out his choicest blessings on those who are anxious that nothing shall stick to their hands. Individuals who value the rainy day above the present agony of the world will get no blessing from God.

~ William Macdonald

Greatness is not a gift that one can give to another, but rather is a thief's relic that we must take for ourselves.

~ A.j. Darkholme

It is better to do little things with love than big things without love.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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

~ Anna Quindlen

The difference between self love and being in love with yourself is that one results in giving and the other in taking.

~ Jeffrey Fry

You can be broken into a dozen shattered pieces and still heal the world because service has its own medicine--hope.

~ Shannon L. Alder

There are so many people in the world with so little. Who cares why you decide to help?

~ Amy Poehler

When you GIVE under “compulsion” or “Grudgingly” you are giving under the LAW of giving and NOT the GRACE given for giving. God loves a cheerful (thankful) giver, which is giving under GRACE. 2 Cor 9:7

~ John Paul Warren

The more we give, the more we reap the benefits of feeling good in helping others. We are all capable of giving and and as well receiving, from giving graciously The blessing about giving is that it always comes back to us!

~ Angie Karan

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

you are good when you strive to give of yourself.

~ Kahlil Gibran

Some say that there is no such thing as free lunch. And, I ask, why not? The joy of giving without expecting anything in return from a particular source is simply magic.

~ Ana Ortega

Sometimes an outside perspective is the clearer perspective.

~ Shannon A. Thompson

If every action has an equal and opposite reaction, then the opposite of giving is receiving!!!!! Give maximum appreciation and you will equally receive!!!!

~ Harrish Sairaman

The greatest gains that we will ever experience arise from the greatest sacrifices that we have ever known.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

For so many centuries, the exchange of gifts has held us together. It has made it possible to bridge the abyss where language struggles.

~ Barry López

Nothing can save you from hate, empty all your treasures and give it to people and one out of the multitudes will curse you, so live your life to please yourself and not others.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

It's not enough, and so limiting, to teach the simplistic value of a designer's material wear. Give children the gift of values that will last far beyond [a] fad's temporal popularity.

~ T.f. Hodge

If giving hurts, then receiving will likely hurt, and you must again ask yourself why you feel or think the way you do.

~ Stephen Richards

If I say I'll help you I'll help you. If I say I'll kill you I'll kill you. Everything else is ripples of maybe.

~ Stanley Victor Paskavich

The power of giving is beyond measure.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We do not have much but we give more.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Good deeds are seeds of generosity.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The fertile land yields its fruits in the sacred time.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Love your neighbor, even the ones who do not show you the same courtesy. You can’t expect to receive love if you’re selective and not really willing to give it. What you put into the world, you will indeed get back, even if it’s not from the person you’re expecting it to be.

~ Alexandra Elle

There are those who live and die giving love, without receiving any. And those who live life just taking, never giving. So the universe gives a boon to a few lucky souls: Who they love will love them back—all their lives.

~ Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

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?

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Little things done with love are much better than big things without love.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

What many people do not understand is: It's not about who you think you know, but about who actually knows you. So better start giving today, be it giving everything at your job, or giving out lunch to that man. Start giving, and the world will know your true character!

~ Akilnathan Logeswaran

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

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

To make a choice not to sacrifice is to decide that I am better off allowing a life to perish than release the resources I possess that might allow it to thrive. And because of choices such as these, the life that I am really allowing to perish is mine.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

~ Bryant Mcgill

Love’s value is not dependent on the person receiving it, but on the person giving it.

~ Jeffrey Fry