We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.
Orison Swett Marden

As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward.
Augusten Burroughs

Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.
Robert Green Ingersoll

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

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.
Samuel Johnson

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

Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
Barbara Bush

A consumer doesn't take anything away: he doesn't actually consume anything. Giving the same thing to a thousand consumers is not really any more expensive than giving it to just one.
Linus Torvalds

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

We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.
Bernard Meltzer

I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.
Mary Oliver

Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.
Sam Levenson

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.
Pablo Casals

What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

And I'm a believer that you take a negative and turn it into a positive, and as it turned out, it was one of the best things that ever happened to me. And so I do appreciate the Ranger staff and the Ranger organization for giving me that opportunity.
Nolan Ryan

Wouldn't it be great if you could only get AIDS by giving money to television preachers?
Elayne Boosler

The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.
Edwin Louis Cole

I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence, I know likewise that I shall exist no more when I shall have ceased to feel.
Giacomo Casanova