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.

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.

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.

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