Giving Quotes...

Giving Quotes

"The feelings shared during Christmas will last
much longer than the gifts we receive."
- John A. Jenson

"The manner of giving is worth
more than the gift."
- Pierre Corneille

"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

"What is bought is cheaper than a gift."
- Portuguese Proverb

"A gift in season is a double
favor to the needy."
- Publilius Syrus

"Every gift, though it be small, is in reality,
great if given with affection."
- Pindar

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

"If instead of a gem, or even a flower,
we should cast the gift of a loving thought
into the heart of a friend, that would be
giving as the angels give."
- George MacDonald

"A hug is a great gift - one size fits all,
and it's easy to exchange."
- Author Unknown

"Give what you have. To someone, it may
be better than you dare to think."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Love is, above all, the gift of oneself."
- Jean Anouilh

Generosity Quotes

Generosity Quotes

"If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers,
it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island
cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them."
- Francis Bacon

"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

"The fragrance always stays in the
hand that gives the rose."
- Hada Bejar

"The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able
to give a large part of one's self to others."
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

"We make a living by what we get,
but we make a life by what we give."
- Winston Churchill

"There is no beautifier of complexion,
or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and
not pain around us. 'Tis good to give a stranger a meal,
or a night's lodging. 'Tis better to be hospitable to his good
meaning and thought, and give courage to a companion.
We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture,
which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do,
but it is giving me that which you need more than I do."
- Kahlil Gibran

"Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege."
- John D. Rockefeller Jr.

"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 joy that isn't shared dies young."
- Anne Sexton

Quotes and verses on Giving...

Quotes and Verses on Giving

"Each one must give as he has decided in his heart,
not reluctantly or under compulsion,
for God loves a cheerful giver."
- 2 Corinthians 9:7

"Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourself.
Don’t just think about your own affairs,
but be interested in others, too, and in what
they are doing."
- Philippians 2: 3-4, TLB

"I have found that among its other benefits,
giving liberates the soul of the giver."
- Maya Angelou

""We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds
us in some danger of being bitten."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We make a living by what we get, but we
make a life by what we give."
- Winston Churchill

"The love we give away is the only love we keep."
- Elbert Hubbard