Giving Quotes

• 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.

• 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.

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

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

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

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

• One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

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

• 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.

• 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.

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

• Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.

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

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

• Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.

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

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

• He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

• You try to give away what you want yourself.

• You try to give away what you want yourself.

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