Giving Quotes
Sad Quotes about Giving

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated,
journalism keeps us in touch
with the ignorance of the community.
- Oscar Wilde

Pity may represent little more
than the impersonal concern
which prompts the mailing of a check,
but true sympathy is the personal concern
which demands the giving of one's soul.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Letting go doesn't mean giving up...
it means moving on.
- Anonymous

Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth -
look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity,
and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus
could be intended for enjoyment.
- Soren Kierkegaard

My joy is the golden sunset
giving thanks for another day.
Gratitude itself is a source of joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

No one has ever become poor by giving.
- Anne Frank

Mother's love grows by giving.
- Charles Lamb

You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl
is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
- Albert Einstein

I hate the giving of the hand
unless the whole man accompanies it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

The giving of love is an education in itself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Today, I say yes to forgiving.
I commit to being for-giving love
and for-giving compassion in all areas of my life.
- Sheri Rosenthal

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others,
you should put a good deal of thought
into the happiness that you are able to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love.
- Lao Tzu

Life is ever giving of Itself.
We must receive, utilize and extend the gift.
Success and prosperity are spiritual attributes
belonging to all people.
- Ernest Holmes

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
- Erma Bombeck

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world.
I know because I've done it thousands of times.
- Mark Twain

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
- St. Francis of Assisi

Being defeated is often a temporary condition.
Giving up is what makes it permanent.
- Marilyn vos Savant

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

When we hate our enemies, we are
giving them power over us:
power over our sleep, our appetites,
our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.
Our enemies would dance with joy if only
they knew how they were worrying us,
lacerating us, and getting even with us!
Our hate is not hurting them at all,
but our hate is turning our own days
and nights into a hellish turmoil.
- Dale Carnegie

Remember that the happiest people
are not those getting more, but those giving more.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say,
abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot

Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
- Henry Drummond

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
The most certain way to succeed
is always to try just one more time.
- Thomas A. Edison

Giving is the highest expression of our power.
- Vivian Greene

For it is in giving that we receive.
- St. Francis of Assisi

Giving birth was easier than having a tattoo.
- Nicole Appleton

Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things
no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving
America a new sense of purpose.
- Andy Rooney

Those who give, hoping to be rewarded with honor,
are not giving, they are bargaining.
- Philo

I postpone death by living, by suffering,
by error, by risking, by giving, by loving.
- Anais Nin

Show me your hands.
Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet.
Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart.
Have you left a place for divine love?
- Fulton J. Sheen

Much education today is monumentally ineffective.
All too often we are giving young people cut flowers
when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
- John W. Gardner

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought
of giving government the power to control men's minds.
- Thurgood Marshall

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
- Dale Carnegie

Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.
- Arnold H. Glasow

Giving money and power to government is like giving
whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
- P. J. O'Rourke

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
...
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
- attributed to St. Francis of Assisi

Beauty is our weapon against nature;
by it we make objects,
giving them limit, symmetry, proportion.
Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
- Camille Paglia

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city,
it might be better to change the locks.
- Doug Larson

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.
So, spread your love everywhere you go.
- Mother Teresa

Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.
- Scott McNealy

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

Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man.
- Tammy Wynette

Once you have seen the truth
you must make the decision to let go
of the pain, anger, and resentment you have been holding on to.
This requires you to take action.
If you are attached to your pain, resentment,
and self-righteousness, and addicted to your emotional reactions,
this will be a difficult step for you.
Taking action requires letting go of the very thing
you have been holding on to for so many years.
There is comfort in what we find familiar,
even if we are experiencing pain and suffering.
The pain and suffering itself becomes the familiarity we seek.
It takes absolute faith in yourself
plus courage, will, and discipline to let go.
But once you let go, it will be as if
the weight of the world has been taken off your shoulders.
In this process it is important to forgive
not just the others in our lives, but also ourselves.
For most people, giving ourselves
the gift of forgiveness is very challenging.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving,
of life.
- George MacDonald

There is a fine line between perseverance and insanity.
At what point have you tried your best,
and it's time to do something different?
It's a balance - a paradox.
If you get in the habit of giving up
as soon as something gets difficult,
your life won't work,
but if you keep tilting at windmills -
madly trying the same thing again and again,
your life also won't work.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Chicken fat, beef fat, fish fat, fried foods -
these are the foods that fuel our fat genes by giving
them raw materials for building body fat.
- Neal Barnard

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it
is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
- William Arthur Ward

Each day offers us the gift of being a special occasion
if we can simply learn that as well as giving,
it is blessed to receive with grace and a grateful heart.
- Sarah Ban Breathnach

What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic
pleasure of giving offense.
- Charles Baudelaire

I think it's time for the people and the press,
in particular, to be more vigilant about not giving
equal weight to lies as they give the truth.
- Joe Wilson

A bore is a vacuum cleaner of society,
sucking up everything and giving nothing.
Bores are always eager to be seen talking to you.
- Elsa Maxwell

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our
lives means the most to us,
we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice,
solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen

Of the 22 industrialized nations of the world,
we're dead last in per capita giving to poor people.
- Tony Campolo

First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that
he did as well as a second chance for a better life.
- Oksana Baiul

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their
marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.
- H. L. Mencken

The people of Iraq are grateful for what the people
of the United States of America and our armed forces
and our coalition forces are giving them the opportunity to do.
- Johnny Isakson

Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.
- Colin Powell

Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back.
Loaning books is the same as giving them away.
- Doug Coupland

I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula
for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom,
limited government, and minding our own business overseas.
- Ron Paul

Old maids do not mind giving people trouble.
- Thomas Nelson Page

Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich,
beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.
- Maureen Dowd

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
- Albert Camus

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting
in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately
serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.
- Charlie Chaplin

I could be, you know, the person that shows little
kids that giving up isn't something that you should do.
- Jessica Lynch

Giving votes in exchange for ideological support.
To wit: identity politics for homosexuals.
- Harry Hay

Our economy is creating jobs and giving businesses
the conditions they need to invest and succeed.
- Dennis Hastert