Giving Quotes

Only when you give from the heart does it make the giving whole.

~ Stephen Richards

Until we can receive with an open heart, we're never really giving with an open heart. When we attach judgment to receiving help, we knowingly or unknowingly attach judgment to giving help.

~ Brené Brown

everybody needs help in some way, we are a community on earth, giving & receiving, ebbing & flowing, reflecting, even tough lessons can help

~ Jay Woodman

Love and honor. They are the two great things, and now they’re dimmed and blighted. Today, love is just sex and sentimentality. Love is really a recognition of truth, a recognition of another person’s integrity and truth in a way that is compatible with — that makes both of you light up when you recognize the quality in the other. That’s what love is. It’s a recognition of singularity… And love is giving and giving and giving … not looking for any return. Until you do that, you can’t love.

~ Robert Graves

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

~ Ryan Lilly

Paltry supply with capable means is one face of iniquity.

~ Andy Harglesis

But you can’t give them everything they want—they will always want more than they have.

~ Marie Lu

Some people want what they are not willing to give.

~ Brenda Johnson Padgitt

Whenever we have excess, giving should be our natural response. It should be the automatic decision, the obvious thing to do in light of Scripture and human need.

~ Randy Alcorn

Giving is an act of generosity.Giving is sowing a seed.The seed will produce great harvest of fruits.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Sajib had said, What about happiness – can you measure that?Rodney had thought yes, you could measure it by ease of living –how much does a person suffer compared to the next? Now, to make more people happy, how do we eliminate suffering? But happiness, in its strength or fragility, was more complex than comfort. It had so many sources, so many nemeses, and so many pitfalls. He couldn’t, in his right mind, try to instruct the happiness of others.

~ Katherine Russell

Live like a tree, giving, forgiving, and free.

~ Debasish Mridha

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

~ Charles Dickens

The most truly generous persons are those who give silently without hope of praise or reward.

~ Carol Ryrie Brink

Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

You often say ; I would give , but only to the deserving, The trees in your orchard say not so , nor the flocks in your pasture.Surely he who is worthy to receive his days and nights is worthy of all else from you.And he who has deserved to drink from the ocean of life deserves to fill his cup from your little stream. See first that you yourself deserve to be a giver , and an instrument of giving.For in truth it is life that gives unto life-while you , who deem yourself a giver , is but a witness.

~ Kahlil Gibran

Generosity is not in giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is in giving me that which you need more than I do.

~ Kahlil Gibran

The next time you want to withhold your help, or your love, or your support for another for whatever the reason, ask yourself a simple question: do the reasons you want to withhold it reflect more on them or on you? And which reasons do you want defining you forevermore?

~ Dan Pearce

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

Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting.

~ Brian Tracy

It is the apathetic person that sees the cause while the charitable person sees the need.

~ Shannon L. Alder

If you want to ask one question, ask yourself, what are you giving to the universe and only that will be returned.

~ Amit Ray

[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

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

~ Pierre Corneille

What we spend, we lose. What we keep will be left for others. What we give away will be ours forever.

~ David Mcgee

Some of us are like the Dead Sea, always taking in but never giving out, because we are not rightly related to the Lord Jesus.

~ Oswald Chambers

When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.

~ Vernon Mclellan

The simple gift of giving becomes an elaborate rich aftertaste of a natural blissful feeling, lingering endlessly in my lifetime.

~ Wes Adamson

The more you love, the more love you are given to love with.

~ Lucien Price

Who are you that men should rend their bosom and unveil their pride, that you may see their worth naked and their pride unabashed?See first that you yourself deserve to be a giver, and an instrument of giving.

~ Kahlil Gibran

You are going to have to give and give and give, or there's no reason for you to be writing. You have to give from the deepest part of yourself, and you are going to have to go on giving, and the giving is going to have to be its own reward. There is no cosmic importance to your getting something published, but there is in learning to be a giver.

~ Anne Lamott

The energy that mosquitoes need to lay eggs is neither the same as that which elephants need to bring forth nor that which a woman needs to push, yet they all need a certain amount of energy vital for them to produce something! Go help somebody for God’s sake; your little is vital! Your little will inspire! Your little will bring smiles! Go help somebody now!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

One of the effects of the gospel going deeper into our souls is that it frees our fingers to loosen their grasp on our goods.

~ David Mathis

For the Christian, the issue is not just that we give, but how. ‘God loves a cheerful giver’ (2 Cor. 9:7). And giving gladly rests on the great why of Christian generosity: that Christ himself—our Savior, Lord, and greatest treasure—demonstrated the ultimate in generosity in coming to buy us back. ‘Though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich’ (2 Cor. 8:9). If Jesus is in us, then increasingly such an open-handed tendency will be in us as well.

~ David Mathis

Humans are givers by nature; that's why it's easier to do something for another than for oneself. Try it, you'll see what I mean.

~ Charbel Tadros

If your portfolio is made up of the investments that you have made in the lives of people, you will have amassed a wealth so vast that all the portfolios that will ever float the trading floor on Wall Street would, by comparison, be reckoned as nothing. And if by chance we dared to live by this truth, we would in fact would love like none other.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If your portfolio is made up of the investments that you have made in the lives of people, you will have amassed a wealth so vast that all the portfolios that will ever float the trading floor on Wall Street would, by comparison, be reckoned as nothing. And if by chance we dared to live by this truth, we would in fact love like none other.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The gift of a good story is as infinite as the stars.

~ Jennifer Leblanc

WHEN WE GIVE FROM A PLACE OF LOVE,RATHER THAN FROM A PLACE OF EXPECTATION, MORE USUALLY COMES BACK TO US THAN WE COULD HAVE EVER IMAGINED.

~ Susan Jeffers

If the enemy attacks, it is because God is giving you much more

~ Sunday Adelaja