Giving Quotes - Page 5

• 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, Peace, Money

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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  If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Funny, Life

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.424, Modern Library

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• I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.

  Khalil Gibran

  Morning, Helping Others, Volunteer

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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.

  Dale Carnegie

  Hate, Sleep, Blood

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

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

  Albert Einstein

  Funny, Life, Cute

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.482, Princeton University Press

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• I know what I have given you, I do not know what you have received.

  Antonio Porchia

  Giving Not Receiving, Given, Gift Giving

  "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.

  George William Curtis

  Motivational, Peace, Kindness

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• 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 much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.

  Henri Nouwen

  Love, Friendship, Pain

  "Kindness Can Open Hearts and Unexpected Opportunities" by Kare Anderson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 2015.

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• What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.

  Tryon Edwards

  Lost, Left

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• 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 Friend, Soul

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

  Max Beerbohm

  Inspirational, Kindness, Way

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.71, New York Review of Books

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• When I give, I give myself.

  Walt Whitman

  Dance, Helping Others

  "Song of Myself " l. 994 (written 1855)

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• Pain's nothing. Pain's what you give, not what you get.

  Colum McCann

  Pain

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.49, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

  George MacDonald

  Inspirational, Friendship, Thinking Of You

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• Don't say that you want to give, but go ahead and give! You'll never catch up with a mere hope.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Generosity, Want, Mere

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• Giving birth was easier than having a tattoo.

  Nicole Appleton

  Tattoo, Mom, Motherhood

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• Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.

  Doug Larson

  Change, Keys, Cities

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• Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

  Camille Paglia

  Beauty, Nature, Melting

  FaceBook post by Camille Paglia from Nov 13, 2013

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• 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

  Work, Generosity, Making A Difference

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.

  Andy Rooney

  Technology, America, Firefighter

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• Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man.

  Tammy Wynette

  Love, Pregnancy, Men

  "Stand by Your Man" (song) (1968). Cowritten with Billy Sherrill.

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• Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Men, Freedom Of Speech, Mind

  Thurgood Marshall, Mark V. Tushnet (2001). “Thurgood Marshall: His Speeches, Writings, Arguments, Opinions, and Reminiscences”, p.11, Chicago Review Press

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

  Anais Nin

  Life, Moving On, Death

  "The Diary of Anais Nin: Vol. 1 (1931-1934)" by Anais Nin, (p. 190), March 19, 1969.

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• It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.

  Gloria Steinem

  Money, Watches, World

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• Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Life, Kindness, Generosity

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.403, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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