Quotes of Giving - somelinesforyou

“ You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. ”

- Albert Schweitzer

“ The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated. ”

- Baltasar Gracian

“ The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value. ”

- Charles Dudley Warner

“ A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver. ”

- Eleanor Hamilton

“ There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man. ”

- Euripides

“ One must be poor to know the luxury of giving. ”

- George Eliot

“ Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can. ”

- John Wesley

“ Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal. ”

- Lenore Hershey

“ You try to give away what you want yourself. ”

- Lois McMaster Bujold

“ If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach. ”

- Margaret Cho

“ If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things. ”

- Norman Douglas

“ What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give. ”

- P. D. James

“ Gifts allow us to demonstrate exactly how little we know about a person. And nothing pisses a person off more than being shoved into the wrong pigeonhole. ”

- Pam Davis

“ A gift in season is a double favor to the needy. ”

- Publilius Syrus

“ He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly. ”

- Publilius Syrus

“ The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed. ”

- Seneca

“ We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. ”

- Sir Winston Churchill

“ Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself. ”

- Walt Whitman

“ The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right. ”

- Hannah Whitall Smith

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

- Maya Angelou

“ All that this world knows of living lies in giving — and more giving; He that keeps, be sure he loses — Friendship grows by what it uses. ”

- Alexander Maclaren

“ Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process. ”

- Jim Rohn

“ We are rich only through what we give; and poor only through we refuse and keep. ”

- Anne Sophie Swetchine

“ In Giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given. ”

- George McDonald

“ Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough; money can be got; but they need your hearts to love them. ”

- Harold Ross

“ Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. ”

- Thomas A. Edison
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