Giving Quotes.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 
 

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.
-- Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco
 

Generosity consists not the sum given, but the manner in which it is bestowed.
-- Author Unknown

 

Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
 

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

In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.
-- Flora Edwards
 

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

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
-- Robert A. Heinlein 
 

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.
-- Frank A. Clark 
 

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

To know when to be generous and when to be firm -- this is wisdom.
-- Elbert Hubbard 
 

To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.
-- Benjamin Franklin 
 

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of this world is not 'to have and to hold' but 'to give and serve."
-- Sir Wilfred T. Grinfell 
 

The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving.
-- Albert Einstein 
 

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
-- Lao Tzu 
 

There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.
-- Nathaniel Branden 
 

There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else. 

-- Peyton Conway March
 

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill
 

Whatever you spend is gone. What you keep, someone else gets. What you give is yours forever.
-- Dr. Wil Rose 
 

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
-- Kahlil Gibran