Quotes about Giving

"Getting what you want is not nearly as important as giving what you have."
-Tom Krause

"People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity."
-Oscar Wilde

"My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share."
-Rita Mae Brown

"Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind."
-William Shakespeare

"Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act."
-Jack Welch

"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love."
-Lao tzu

"The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed."
-Seneca

"I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly."
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"You try to give away what you want yourself."
-Lois McMaster Bujold

"He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly."
-Publilius Syrus

"A gift in season is a double favor to the needy."
-Publilius Syrus

"Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life's blood. But everyone has something to give."
-Barbara Bush

"What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give."
-P. D. James

"There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man."
-Euripides

"The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value."
-Charles Dudley Warner

"A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver."
-Eleanor Hamilton

"Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can."
-John Wesley

"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 Gracian

"For it is in giving that we receive."
-St. Francis Of Assisi

"Give me love, give me peace on earth, give me light, give me life, keep me free from birth, give me hope, help me cope, with this heavy load, trying to, touch and reach you with, heart and soul."
-George Harrison

"To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving."
-Max Beerbohm

"Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others."
-Henry Drummond

"To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole."
-Dr. Charles Edwards

"He that will not give some portion of his ease, his blood, his wealth, for others' good, is a poor, frozen churl."
-Joanna Baillie

"Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts."
-Edward R. Murrow

"The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him."
-Voltaire

"Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love."
-Socrates

"I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself."
-Oprah Winfrey