Giving Quotes

Famous Quotes and Sayings

When we think of giving quotes one of the first that comes to my mind is, "Give and you shall receive." That one of many famous giving quotes is the basis of this entire website.

I hope you find strength from one of these many others famous inspirational quotes.

"Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent." Marilyn Vos Savant

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

"Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose." Unknown

"Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need." Kahlil Gibran

"Give light and people will find their own way." Unknown

"God has given to all men free agency and has granted us the privilege to serve Him or serve Him not, to do that which is right or that which is wrong, but he will hold us strictly to an account for the use that we make of this agency." Unknown

"Go-Givers will become the best go-getters." Unknown

"Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home." Emily Bronte

"I didn't want them to give their power away to me, either. I don't like to call it teaching. I like to call it sharing what I have learned." Shirley Maclaine

"I respect generosity in people, and I respect it in companies too, I don't look at it as philanthropy; I see it as an investment in the community." Paul Newman

"I think the great livers, the people who are fully self-actualizing and alive, are the great givers." Mark Victor Hansen

"If you continually give, you will continually have." Unknown

"Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense." Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Kindness in giving creates love." Lao Tzo

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

"Let me be a little kinder, Let me be a little blinder to the faults about me; Let me praise a little more, Let me be, when I am weary; Just a little bit more cheery, Let me serve a little better those that I am striving for. Let me be a little braver When temptation bids me waver, Let me strive a little harder To be all that I should be; Let me be a little meeker to the brother that is weaker; Let me think more of my neighbor and a little less of me." Unknown

"Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give." Eleanor Roosevelt

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

"Why not, really, go to the fullest length, and the silliest length, in exploiting yourself and turn the proceeds back to the community?" Paul Newman

"You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them." William Blake

"You can no more give what you haven't learned than you can come back from a place you've never been." Unknown

"You give before you get." Napoleon Hill

"You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give." Unknown