Giving Quotes

Find words of wisdom in these giving quotes. May these words inspire and motivate you to look beyond monetary gift giving and receiving!

Did you know that there are gifts that will multiply your happiness when you give them away?
Steve Brunkhorst

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
George Eliot

Giving can mean more than you realize, and a gift does not always cost money; consider the gift of your time to someone who needs encouragement.
Catherine Pulsifer

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.
Amy Carmichael

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
Desmond Tutu

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.
Elizabeth Bibesco

Cheerful givers do not count the cost of what they give.Their hearts are set on pleasing and cheering the person to whom the gift is given.
Julian of Norwich

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
Jim Valvano

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill

We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.
Ethel Waters

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present.
Babatunde Olatunji

We all should give what we have decided in our hearts to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
2 Corinthians 9:7

Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.
Richard Bach

Peace is our gift to each other.
Elie Wiesel

Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare; who gives himself with his alms feeds three, himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.
James Russell Lowell

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you"?
William Arthur Ward

The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement.
Sidney Madwed, from The finest gift ...

Simply give others a bit of yourself; a thoughtful act, a helpful idea, a word of appreciation, a lift over a rough spot, a sense of understanding, a timely suggestion. You take something out of your mind, garnished in kindness out of your heart, and put it into the other person's mind and heart.
Charles H. Burr

Life, love, and laughter - what priceless gifts to give our children.
Phyllis Dryden

Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator,
Another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday.
Og Mandino

Each day's a gift of Life divine a precious jewel that's yours and mine!
John McLeod, from I Believe In Miracles

Friendship is God's most precious gift.
Author Unknown, from The Miracle of Friendship

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

There are many things in life that are beyond our control. But there are few things in life that are beyond our power of choice and our ability to make lemonade from lemons if we just put our minds to it while we focus on the gifts of the present
Julie Donner Andersen, from What My Widowed Husband Has Taught Me

They serve best who give most of themselves. Self is forgotten by the one who serves, for such a one rejoices to see success coming to others through his or her efforts.
James Cash Penney

Join a giving community and you will surely find your talents, caring and compassion valued more than you might believe.
Catherine Pulsifer, You Can Certainly Help

The measure of life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
Peter Marshall

Maybe life is supposed to be like that - a little giving that means a lot to others. I have never forgotten this unusual event, and, to this day, I believe that giving of one's humanity is better than the mere observation of life.
Byron Pulsifer, What Counts As A Miracle

A gift of laughter quells the scorn of many and provides that uplifting music to the ears of those around you.
Catherine Pulsifer, Possible To Give Gifts

. . . giving to others is more a state of mind, the ability to see beyond our own selfishness, or our own self-image or ego. It means that we are human and every human has a responsibility to help those who are not as well positioned to help themselves.
Catherine Pulsifer, Blindness In More Ways

"He who plants a tree, plants hope."

Giving Quotes