Giving Quotes - Page 8

• To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Inspirational, Angel, Helping Others

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• Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Wisdom, Inspiration

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.31, New World Library

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• 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 may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Life, Positive, Leadership

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.55, Beacon Press

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• There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.

  Euripides

  Men, Benefits, Bad Man

  Euripides (2012). “Medea”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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• Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Inspirational, Graduation, Giving Up

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• Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.

  Mortimer Adler

  True Love, Love Is, Association

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• Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Education, Wisdom

  The Impressions of Theophrastus Such "A Man Surprised at His Own Originality" (1879)

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• Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.

  George MacDonald

  Forgiveness, Receiving Love, I Forgive You

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.1838, Delphi Classics

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• Mother's love grows by giving.

  Charles Lamb

  Family, Mom, Mother

  Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (1838). “The Poetical Works of Charles Lamb”, p.196

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

  Sparky Anderson

  Realizing, Tricks

  Sparky Anderson (1991). “Sparky!”, Prentice Hall

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• 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 al, but our hate is turning our days and nights into a hellish turmoil.

  Dale Carnegie

  Life, Inspiring, Forgiveness

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How to Stop Worrying and Start Living”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.

  John Wesley

  Life, Motivational, Christmas

  'Rule of Conduct' in 'Letters' (1915)

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• There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.

  May Sarton

  Love, Real, Able

  May Sarton (2017). “The Journals of May Sarton Volume One: Journal of a Solitude, Plant Dreaming Deep, and Recovering”, p.140, Open Road Media

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• Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.

  Carolyn Wells

  Blessed, Advice, Giving Advice

  Carolyn Wells (1937). “The Rest of My Life”

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

  Douglas Coupland

  Book, Loan, Ifs

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• Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Attitude, Character, Thinking

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.121, Penguin

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• What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Vanity, Liberality

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• You give before you get.

  Napoleon Hill

  Think And Grow Rich, Think Rich Grow Rich

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.28, Lulu.com

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• Don't be reluctant to give of yourself generously, it's the mark of caring and compassion and personal greatness.

  Brian Tracy

  Caring, Greatness, Compassion

  Brian Tracy (1998). “Success is a Journey: Make Your Life a Grand Adventure”, Executive Excellence Pub

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• When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self - giving is a personal power - releasing factor.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Courage, Power

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “The Positive Principle Today”, p.168, Simon and Schuster

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• Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

  James Van Fleet

  Thinking, Want, Term

  James K. Van Fleet (1973). “Power with People”, Prentice Hall

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• By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  People, World, Share

  " Who Owns the Future? by Jaron Lanier - review" by Laurence Scott, www.theguardian.com. February 27, 2013.

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• Never, never, never give up.

  Winston Churchill

  Motivational, Giving Up, Self Esteem

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• 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

  Education, Flower, Teaching

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• The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Inspirational, Motivational, Art

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