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Quotes about Giving


Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.

Jean De La Bruyère

Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.

Jean De La Bruyere

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

Albert Camus

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

Kahlil Gibran

Like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a shirt on his back.

Tom Brown

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

George MacDonald

The trick is to realize that after giving your best, there's nothing more to give.

Sparky Anderson

It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving.

Richard Braunstein

It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.

Mother Teresa

Giving advice to a stupid man is like giving salt to a squirrel.

Kashmiri Proverb

I believe that what women resent is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

True thanksgiving means that we need to thank God for what He has done for us, and not to tell Him what we have done for Him. -.

George R. Hendrick

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

Erma Bombeck

Happiness comes from spiritual wealth, not material wealth... Happiness comes from giving, not getting. If we try hard to bring happiness to others, we cannot stop it from coming to us also. To get joy, we must give it, and to keep joy, we must scatter it. . -John Templeton.

John Templeton

In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men. [Lat., Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt quam salutem hominibus dando.]

Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

Constant at Church and 'Change; his gains were sure; His givings rare, save farthings to the poor.

Alexander Pope

Justice consists of doing no one injury, decency in giving no one offense.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.

Thomas Alva Edison

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.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Before and after practicing Judo or engaging in a match, opponents bow to each other. Bowing is an expression of gratitude and respect. In effect, you are thanking your opponent for giving you the opportunity to improve your technique.

Jigoro Kano

Justice consists of doing no one injury, decency in giving no one offense.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness. [Lat., Sociis atque amicis auxilia portabant Romani, magisque dandis quam accipiundis beneficiis amicitias parabant.]

Sallust (Caius Sallustius Crispus)

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

Michael Drayton

I like life. It's something to do. Somewhere on this globe every 10 seconds there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.

Sam Levinson

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