Quotes tagged as "giving" (showing 1-30 of 285)
“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”
― Charles Dickens
― Charles Dickens
tags: giving, helping-others
“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.”
― Winston S. Churchill
― Winston S. Churchill
“You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
“The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted, yet everyone takes the happy person for granted. No one is careful of his feelings or tries to keep his spirits high. He seems self-sufficient; he becomes a cushion for others. And because happiness seems unforced, that person usually gets no credit.”
― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
“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
― Mother Teresa
“A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
“The only gift I have to give, is the ability to receive. If giving is a gift, and it surely is, then my gift to you is to allow you to give to me.”
― Jarod Kintz, The Titanic would never have sunk if it were made out of a sink.
― Jarod Kintz, The Titanic would never have sunk if it were made out of a sink.
“Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.”
― Ben Carson
― Ben Carson
“Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
“I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.”
― Khalil Gibran
― Khalil Gibran
“You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.”
― Amy Carmichael
― Amy Carmichael
“My mother told me that life isn't always about pleasing yourself and that sometimes you have to do things for the sole benefit of another human being. I completely agreed with her, but reminded her that that was what blow jobs were for.”
― Chelsea Handler, My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands
― Chelsea Handler, My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands
“Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.”
― Criss Jami
― Criss Jami
“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
― Mother Teresa
“Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.”
― Brian Tracy
― Brian Tracy
“Give freely to the world these gifts of love and compassion. Do not concern yourself with how much you receive in return, just know in your heart it will be returned.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
“You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson
― Robert Louis Stevenson
“Speak the truth do not become angered and give when asked, even be it a little. By these three conditions one goes to the presence of the gods.”
― Gautama Buddha
― Gautama Buddha
“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, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
― Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
“Do you not know that God entrusted you with that money (all above what buys necessities for your families) to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to help the stranger, the widow, the fatherless; and, indeed, as far as it will go, to relieve the wants of all mankind? How can you, how dare you, defraud the Lord, by applying it to any other purpose?”
― John Wesley
― John Wesley
tags: caring, christianity, clothing, compassion, evangelism, faithfulness, fatherless, feed, finances, giving, help,hungry, money, naked, necessities, needs, orphan, possessions, sharing, stealing, stewardship, strangers, tithe, wants,widow
“Generosity is not giving me that which I need that you do, but it is giving me that which you need more that I do.”
― Khalil Gibran
― Khalil Gibran
tags: generosity, giving
“One of the greatest evils is the foolishness of a good man. For the giving man to withhold helping someone in order to first assure personal fortification is not selfish, but to elude needless self-destruction; martyrdom is only practical when the thought is to die, else a good man faces the consequence of digging a hole from which he cannot escape, and truly helps no one in the long run.”
― Mike Norton, Just Another War Story
― Mike Norton, Just Another War Story
tags: addiction, die, dig, digging, escape, evil, foolishness, fortification, giving, good, help, helping, helping-hand,hurt, kindness, man, pain, recovery, sacrifice, seflessness, self-destruction, selfish, selfishness, thanksgiving
“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.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
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.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
“Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.”
― Ramana Maharshi
― Ramana Maharshi
