Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old giving quotes, giving sayings, and giving proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.Mother Teresa
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You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.Amy Carmichael
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For it is in giving that we receive.Francis of Assisi
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Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.Seneca
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No one has ever become poor by giving.Anne Frank
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By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent.Mark Zuckerberg
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To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.Max Beerbohm
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If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.Mother Teresa
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Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.Albert Einstein
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You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.Kahlil Gibran
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Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.John D. Rockefeller
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The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.Pierre Corneille
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You give to yourself by giving of yourself.Matt Kahn
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Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege.John D. Rockefeller Jr.
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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.Barbara Bush
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I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.Maya Angelou
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The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.Disraeli
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To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.Oscar Wilde
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You give before you get.Napoleon Hill
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For of those to whom much is given, much is required.John F. Kennedy
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It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.Albert Camus
It is not the gift, but the thought that counts.Henry Van Dyke
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We must give more in order to get more, It is the generous giving of ourselves that produce the generous harvest.Orison Swett Marden
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Before giving, the mind of the giver is happy; while giving, the mind of the giver is made peaceful; and having given, the mind of the giver is uplifted.Buddha
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We must not only give what we have; we must also give what we are.Desire Joseph Mercier
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Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.John Wesley
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If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart.Arabic Proverb
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To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Giving to others will not take away from what you have but will in fact add to your life.Catherine Pulsifer
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In Giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.George Mcdonald
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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.Sir Winston Churchill
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Giving is the master key to success, in all applications of human life.Bryant McGill
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The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.Lao Tzu
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The best things to do with the best things in life is to give them awayDorothy Day
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Fill yourselves first and then only will you be able to give to others.Augustine of Hippo
The best investment with the least risk and the greatest dividend is giving.Sir John Templeton
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If I cannot give bountifully, yet will I give freely.Arthur Warwick
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At its best, giving is an act of worship.Cornelius J. Dyck
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The Heart That Gives, Gathers.Marianne Moore
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Give the world the best you have and the best will come back to you.Madeline Bridge
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When giving comes directly from the heart, it can never disappoint or embarrass.Bel Kaufman
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Give naught, get same. Give much get same.Malcolm Forbes
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Giving is the key to living life of abundance blessings.Lailah Gifty Akita
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The second best thing after a gift itself is the way of giving itAli Boussi
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Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.Colin Powell
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The giving of love is an education in itself.Eleanor Roosevelt
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Giving and take give we hear a great deal about the Lord loving cheerful givers.Evan Esar
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When it comes to giving charity, some people stop at nothing.Evan Esar
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The Lord loves a cheerful giver, and so does everyone else.
Evan Esar
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There's nothing so rare as the ability to take good advice, except the wisdom to give it.Evan Esar
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The man who takes and never gives, may last for years but never lives.Evan Esar
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It takes a heart filled with love to give when there is very little to give.John A. Andrews
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It's a known fact that if you want the fireplace to give you heat, you have got to keep feeding it some wood.John A. Andrews
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You can never out-give your source.John A. Andrews
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When God gives you a vision he also gives you the ability, and in his timing you'll certainly reach your destination if you persevere.John A. Andrews
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God is love. He's the source which keeps giving to the stream continually.John A. Andrews
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Take whatever He gives and give whatever He takes with a big smile.Mother Teresa of Calcutta
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Give a man a fish, feed him for a day; teach him how to fish, feed him for a lifetime.Chinese Proverb
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Treat all men alike, Give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. All men were made by the same Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers. Chief Joseph
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When things are in danger: someone has to give them up so that others may keep them.
Frodo Baggins
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God gave us the gift of life. it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.Voltaire
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The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar is bound to succeed.Henry Ford
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Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.P.J. O'Rourke
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Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.Arnold H. Glasow
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Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.George Macdonald
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When you give, you'll receive something back too.James Frey
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No matter where you are in life or what your consequences are, you can give.James Frey
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Friendship, at least those that I've known, is about giving.James Frey
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You may give a man an office, but you cannot give him discretion.Benjamin Franklin
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Give in this world. Receive in the next.John Taylor Wood
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You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.Kahlil Gibran
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A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver.Thomas Kempis
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The only gift is the portion of thyself.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Idries Shah
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The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.Pierre Corneille
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Take what you are given, not what you want to be given.Idries Shah
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Give what cannot be taken.Idries Shah
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.Bangambiki Habyarimana
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Why should we give God thanks? Because everything we have comes from God.Billy Graham
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Christ wants to give you hope for the future.Billy Graham
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Give them quality. That's the best kind of advertising.
Milton Hershey
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If you give 100 percent all the time, somehow things will work out in the end.Larry Bird
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I need to give you something impossible, as a gift, so you can feel some of my joy.Jason Edward Shiffman
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The lord give-it and the lord take-it, so I give it so he won't have to take it.
Joseph Julius Bonkowski
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Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless.Dr Purushothaman
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Never regret a day in you life. Goo days give you happiness. Bad days give you experience. Worst days give lessons, and the best days give memories.Fernan Vargas
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Generosity is the virtue of giving good things to others freely and abundantly.Christian Smith
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Generosity also involves giving to others not simply anything in abundance but rather giving those things that are beneficial to others.Christian Smith
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Generosity always intends to enhance the true well-being of those to whom something is being given.Christian Smith
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Generous people can give may vary: money, possessions, time, attention, aid, encouragement, emotional availability and more.Christian Smith
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Generosity is like love in a way. People often say that we increase love we have by giving it away.Christian Smith
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Generosity works its magic on one person at a time.
Barbara Bonner
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Generosity is a practice, and as with anything we practice, we get better at it over time.Barbara Bonner
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Generosity is willing to take risks.Barbara Bonner
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Generosity invites us to put ourselves in another's shoes, see and feel the existence of a pressing need, realize that it within our power to help.Barbara Bonner