Quotes about Giving

True generosity is measured not by how much we give away but by how much we have left, especially when we look at the needs of our neighbors. We have no right not to be charitable. The early Christians taught that charity is merely returning what we have stolen. In the seventeenth century, St. Vincent de Paul said that when he gives bread to the beggars, he gets on his knees and asks forgiveness from them.

The only way a relationship will last is if you see it as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.

Hope involves giving a great deal of yourself away.

The history of the world teaches that the power of joy in people doesn't come in getting, it always comes in giving, contributing, adding more. The more you give, the more you live. If you're about something better, live for something higher than self.

Proactive people make love a verb. Love is something you do: the sacrifices you make, the giving of self, like a mother bringing a newborn into the world.

Proactive people make love a verb. Love is something you do: the sacrifices you make, the giving of self, like a mother bringing a newborn into the world. If you want to study love, study those who sacrifice for others, even for people who offend or do not love in return.

In fact, unless I possess something, can I ever really give it?

Sacrifice is the ecstasy of giving the best we have to the One we love most.

The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.

Love can wait to give; it is lust that can't wait to get.

The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.

The only way to retain love is to give it away.