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Quotes About Giving

That which you cannot give away, you do not possess. It possesses you. – Ivern Ball

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not the hate them, but to be indifferent to them. That’s the essence of inhumanity. – George Bernard Shaw

I do not know what your destiny will be, but the one thing I know: the only ones among you who will really be happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve. – Albert Schweitzer

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can. – Sydney Smith

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good thing, therefore, that I can do or any kindness that I can show for any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. – Unknown

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

We are what we repeatedly do. – Aristotle

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. – Edmund Burke

We all have something to give. So if you know how to read, find someone who can’t. If you’ve got a hammer, find a nail. If you’re not hungry, not lonely, not in trouble – seek out someone who it is. – George Bush

If you want one year of prosperity, grow grain.
If you want ten years of prosperity, grow trees.
If you want one hundred years of prosperity, grow people.
– Chinese Proverb

What is the use of living if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone? – Winston Churchill

It is better to light one candle that curse the darkness – Confucius

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another. – Charles Dickens

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something that you do in your spare time. – Marion Wright Edelman

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? – George Elliot

The luxury of doing good surpasses every other personal enjoyment. – John Gay

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. – Kahlil Gibran

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

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

We must not only give what we have; we must also give what we are. – Cardinal Mercier

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident. – Charles Lamb

Those who have not sown anything during their responsible life will have nothing to reap in the future. – George Gurdjieff

To do something, however small, to make others happier and better, is the highest ambition, the most elevating hope, which can inspire a human being. – John Lubbock

Accomplishment is when you use your extra strength to help someone else, rather than to get to the top first. – Donald Ernest Mansell

A committed giver is an incurably happy person, a secure person, a satisfied person, and a prosperous person. – Eric Butterworth

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

There is a destiny that makes men brothers:
None goes his way alone;
All that we send into the lives of others
Comes back into our own.
– Edwin Markham

Energy abounds when you volunteer — do it now. – Holly Stewart McMahon

I want to thank and pay tribute to all of our volunteers — those dedicated people who believe in all work and no pay – Robert Orben

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. – Albert Pike

The miracle is this – the more we share, the more we have. – Leonard Nimoy

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, “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”

You cannot do a kindness too soon, because you never know how soon it will be too late. – Proverb

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

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good actions; try to use ordinary situations. – Jean Paul Richer

People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges. – Unknown

Man is a special being and, if left to himself in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders. – Daniel Webster

Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can.
– John Wesley, Letters of John Wesley

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. – Edith Wharton

No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself. – Woodrow Wilson

That best portion of a good man’s life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. – William Wordsworth

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

It is more difficult to give money away intelligently than it is to earn it in the first place. – Andrew Carnegie

Continually give, continually gain. – Chinese proverb

We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give. – Winston Churchill

It is every man’s obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it. – Albert Einstein

The act of philanthropy is a spiritual act, an expression of caring for one’s fellow human beings. It is a belief in the future and that the future can be good. It is investing in that future. It is helping to make the dream come true. – Arthur Frantzreb

Charity sees the need, not the cause. – German proverb

The main problem is not the haves and the have-nots – it’s the give-nots. – Arnold Glasow

If you haven’t got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble. – Bob Hope

Do your givin’ while you’re livin’… then you’ll be knowin’ where it’s goin’. – Ann Landers

He who obtains has little. He how scatters has much. – Lao-Tzu

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

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

Charity begins at home, but should not end there. – Scottish proverb

He who gives when he is asked has waited too long. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

By always taking out and never putting in, the bottom is soon reached. – Spanish proverb

True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense. – Emanuel Swedenborg

Charity begins at home and generally dies from lack of outdoor exercise. – Unknown

If you are not poor enough to take charity, you are rich enough to give it. – Unknown

Charity and pride have different aims, yet both feed the poor. – Unknown


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