Giving Quotes And Sayings

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“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: what are you doing for others?”
– Martin Luther King Jr.

“As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way.”
– Mary Anne Radmacher 

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

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
– Maya Angelou

“I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.”
– Maya Angelou

“If you find it in your heart to care for someone else, you will have succeeded.”
– Maya Angelou

“I will charge thee nothing but the promise that thee will help the next man thee finds in trouble.”
– Mennonite proverb

“I must be willing to give whatever it takes to do good to others. This requires that I be willing to give until it hurts. Otherwise, there is no true love in me, and I bring injustice, not peace, to those around me.”
– Mother Teresa

“Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.”
– Mother Teresa

“It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.”
– Mother Teresa

“To keep a lamp burning, we have to put oil in it.”
– Mother Teresa

“You give before you get.”
– Napoleon Hill

“First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life.”
– Oksana Baiul 

“I don’t think you ever stop giving. I really don’t. I think it’s an on-going process. And it’s not just about being able to write a check. It’s being able to touch somebody’s life.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“You can’t get rid of poverty by giving people money.”
– P. J. O\’Rourke

“Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.”
– P. J. O’Rourke

“Giving presents is a talent; to know what a person wants, to know when and how to get it, to give it lovingly and well. Unless a character possesses this talent there is no moment more annihilating to ease than that in which a present is received and given.”
– Pamela Glenconner

“Giving 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.”
– Penelope Quest

“The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.”
– Peter Marshall

“There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life — happiness, freedom, and peace of mind — are always attained by giving them to someone else.”
– Peyton Conway March

“The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.”
– Pierre Corneille

“Man discovers his own wealth when God comes to ask gifts of him.”
– Rabindranath Tagore

“You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.”
– Richard Whately

“People think that if they were right they would contribute to charities. My experience has been that if you don’t start giving away your money when you have very little, you won’t do it when you get a lot.”
– Robert Bainum

“You cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually giving – and getting. You cannot hold on to your seed. You must sow it – and reap anew. You cannot hold on to riches. You must use them and get other riches in return.”
– Robert Collier

“Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”
– Robert F. Kennedy

“Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.”
– Robert J. Collier

“The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.”
– Robert M. Pirsig

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