Giving Quotes

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

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Girls should be taught at school that giving birth to an unnaturally over-sized western baby that no longer fits down the birth canal may lead to a multitude of long term health problems.

~ Steven Magee

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.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Making oneself large involves intentionally making oneself small.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

A giving attitude is the key to the door of abundance.

~ Debasish Mridha

Peace starts within. We are what we give.

~ Sal Di Leo

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.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Give and receive with gratitude. Do the former, without expectation of, the latter.

~ Jaeda Dewalt

Unless we learn how to humbly tell each other our giving stories, our churches will not learn to give.

~ Randy Alcorn

​Whatever we are given is supposed to be given away, not kept.

~ Amanda Palmer

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

~ Bryant Mcgill

if the world will attain its utmost peace and stability;and contentions be limited, then the ideology, philosophy and mentality of people in the world should be shifted from the more you acquire the more valuable you are to the more you give the more important you are and with the mentality that giving is a sacred responsibility and not a competition

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

It's easier to take than to give. It's nobler to give than to take. The thrill of taking lasts a day. The thrill of giving lasts a lifetime.

~ Joan Marques

Although I’m seldom aware enough to see it, the greater cost regarding that which I possess was not what I paid for it, but what someone along the way sacrificed so that I might have the opportunity to pay for it.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Sometimes, people you value the most may appreciate all the things you do for them. but that doesn't mean they value you as much you value them. you sacrifice for them and give them all the best because you want them to be happy and you believe they deserve it. You understand and accept them for everything that they are. There are times that you'll ran short and would fail to be at your best and they may take it againts you. you'll have your own share of your weaknesses and flaws and they may not understand you and accept you. You may have been lost at times and they may not look for you or care for you and that's okay. that's the thing about giving. you give without expecting, you give without regrets and you give whole heartedly and freely. For God will always bless you with more than what you give. and it's already fulfilling to see them somehow smile and became complete and still thankful because you did something good for them and that's all that matters.

~ Cristopher Capistrano

If you are happy, you can give happiness. If you don't love yourself and if you are unhappy with yourself, you can't give anything else but that.

~ Gisele Bundchen

Respect all living things, and never take what you cannot give back, or destroy what you cannot create.

~ Bryant Mcgill

We are to give (and take) true love without falling into the narcissistic habit of only trying to take it in.

~ Criss Jami

He who has experienced the mystery of the nature is full of life, full of love, full of joy. Radiance emanates from the whole existence itself, it does not know the meaning of holding back. It is pure giving-giving of love. For the great writers, love is like holding ice in hand, it just turns to water and they lose out their role but for a mystic the moment ice transforms to water love starts to flow.

~ Maitreya Rudrabhayananda

But I give best when I give from that deeper place; when I give simply, freely and generously, and sometimes for no particular reason. I give best when I give from my heart.

~ Steve Goodier

..the best strategy for giving is a two-fold approach: a basic plan combined with a willingness to consider spontaneous giving when unique opportunities arise.

~ Andy Stanley

The Christmas spirit will elude you'til a selfless love consumes youand the joy of giving moves you.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Choose altruism, because selfishism is a lonely, cold, dark hole.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like. Remember, it is not the size of a gift, it is its quality and the amount of mental attachment you overcome that count. So don't bankrupt yourself on a momentary positive impulse, only to regret it later. Give thought to giving. Give small things, carefully, and observe the mental processes going along with the act of releasing the little thing you liked. (53)(Quote is actually Robert A F Thurman but Huston Smith, who only wrote the introduction to my edition, seems to be given full credit for this text.)

~ Huston Smith

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in itsvalue.

~ Charles Dudley Warner

The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.

~ Baltasar Gracián

While real sacrifice is committed to the result, it relishes the effort

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

We have errantly romanticized love as something we freely get verses something we sacrifice for in the giving.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I would much prefer to enlarge your life by giving you the gift of my life, rather than gifting your life to material obesity with frivolous trinkets.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Never look down on someone because they offering a gift which is small in size, that same gift might be big in love that the person is offering with.

~ Unarine Ramaru

You are the gift that only you would have to give.

~ Silvia Hartmann

I hear preached in our charismatic churches, which basically borders on sowing and reaping, giving and receiving. I thought there must be a different format to that message

~ Sunday Adelaja

To consume the best for yourself and give the crumbs to God is blasphemy. A heart that truly worships is a heart that gives its best to God in time and substance. A heart that truly worships God gives generously to the causes of God---causes that God cares deeply about. I have to wonder whether someday we may wake up to discover that all our incestous spending on ourselves and our frantic construction of excessively luxurious places of worship---even as we ignore, for the most part, the hurting and the deprived of the world---filled God's heart with pain.

~ Ravi Zacharias

A smile is not to take, it's given.

~ Will Advise

Sacrifice” and “self” both begin with the same letter, but the spelling is way different after that.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I pretend to give gifts that people pretend to be gifts so that I can pretend that I gave something that actually cost me something. And what pretending of this sort gives me is the gift of a pretend life.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If we have the power and the means, then we must help.

~ Seth Adam Smith

The image of God infused in us never sees the light of day in the service of self, but it becomes the light of day in the service of others.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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.

~ Franco Santoro

Leadership is service, not position.

~ Tim Fargo