Giving Quotes

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

Time, Greatest, Try

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

Pain, Person, Find

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

Girl, Pretty, Kiss

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

Done, Smoking, Times

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

Love, Money, Enough

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

Love, Kindness, Confidence

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.

Sympathy, True, May

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Khalil Gibran

Truth, Heart, Deep

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

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
Abraham Lincoln

Best, Hope, Freedom

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

Soul, Found, Among

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

Ignorance, Touch, Opinions

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.
Leo Buscaglia

Love, Hate, Strong

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

Pride, Less, Taking

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

Love, Education

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

Money, Power, Government

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

Happiness, Good, Give

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

Love, Heart, Place

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.
Khalil Gibran

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Love, Enough, Away

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
Erma Bombeck

Gift, Guilt, Keeps

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

Hate, Whole, Hand

Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying, but on being thankful and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another.
John Clayton

Time, God, Thankful

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

Death, Living, Suffering

I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life.
Tupac Shakur

Life, Deal, Affection

A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Strength, Nation, Land

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

Gratitude, Feeling, Present

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

Love, Give, Loving

Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.
Jim Rohn

Process, Receiving, Starts

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
Elbert Hubbard

Love, Give, Away

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