Giving quotations

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◆ You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

- Robert Louis Stevenson99

◆ Speak the truth do not become angered and give when asked, even be it a little. By these three conditions one goes to the presence of the gods.

- Gautama Buddha99

◆ Until we can receive with an open heart, we're never really giving with an open heart. When we attach judgment to receiving help, we knowingly or unknowingly attach judgment to giving help.

- Brené Brown99

◆ One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

- George Eliot99

◆ The bank of love is never bankrupt.

- Steve Maraboli99

◆ Gracious acceptance is an art - an art which most never bother to cultivate. We think that we have to learn how to give, but we forget about accepting things, which can be much harder than giving.... Accepting another person's gift is allowing him to express his feelings for you.

- Alexander McCall Smith99

◆ You have what I can afford to give. You are a panhandler, begging for anything, and I am the man walking briskly by, tossing a quarter or so into your paper cup. I can afford to give you this. This does not break me.

- Dave Eggers99

◆ One of the greatest evils is the foolishness of a good man. For the giving man to withhold helping someone in order to first assure personal fortification is not selfish, but to elude needless self-destruction; martyrdom is only practical when the thought is to die, else a good man faces the consequence of digging a hole from which he cannot escape, and truly helps no one in the long run.

- Mike Norton99

◆ Do you not know that God entrusted you with that money (all above what buys necessities for your families) to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to help the stranger, the widow, the fatherless; and, indeed, as far as it will go, to relieve the wants of all mankind? How can you, how dare you, defraud the Lord, by applying it to any other purpose?

- John Wesley99

◆ I believe the world is divided in three groups: givers, takers and the few that can balance both impulses. Giving and loving is a beautiful thing. It is the currency of compassion and kindness, it is what separates good people from the rest. And without it, the world would be a bleak place. If you are a giver, it is wise to define your boundaries because takers will take what you allow them to; all givers must learn to protect that about themselves or eventually, there is nothing left to give.

- Tiffany Madison99

◆ Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.

- Brian Tracy99

◆ Even the smallest act of caring for another person is like a drop of water -it will make ripples throughout the entire pond...

- Jessy and Bryan Matteo99

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

- Khalil Gibran99

◆ If you are hurt by someone you love and treasure most, forgive them for they taught you the lesson when it comes to sharing or giving your trust to people.

- Christine Gallego99

◆ Sometimes the best gift we can give to someone is to their hearts not to their hands.

- Terry Mark99