Gift Giving Quotes:

You may have the gift of giving.

- Charles Stanley

topic: Giving, May, Gift Giving

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

- Antonio Porchia

source: "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

topic: Giving Not Receiving, Given, Gift Giving, Gifts And Giving, Giving And Receiving

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

- Pierre Corneille

source: "The Liar". Play by Pierre Corneille, 1643.

topic: Birthday, Christmas, Giving, Christmas Giving, Christmas Present

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

- Pablo Picasso

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Music, Life Philosophy, Meaning Life

Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.

- Benjamin Carson

source: Ben & Candy Carson @RealBenCarson, twitter.com. October 29, 2013.

topic: Giving, Christian Inspirational, Results, Neurosurgeons, Gift Giving

Christmas is the season of joy, of holiday greetings exchanged, of gift-giving,and of families united.

- Norman Vincent Peale

topic: Christmas, Holiday, Giving, Family Holiday, Merry Christmas Inspirational

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

- Mao Zedong

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Joy Of Giving, Kindness Generosity

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

topic: Love, Funny, Women, Jesus Inspirational, Stewards

Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

- Norman MacEwen

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Giving, Social Good, Making A Difference In The World

Giving gifts to others is a fundamental activity, as old as humanity itself. Yet in the modern, complex world, the particulars of gift-giving can be extraordinarily challenging.

- Andrew Weil

source: "Healthy Gift Ideas" by Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

topic: Giving, Challenges, Humanity, Gift Giving

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

- Tony Robbins

topic: Motivational, Positive, Powerful, Philanthropic, Life Opportunity

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value

- Charles Dudley Warner

source: Charles Dudley Warner (1871). “My Summer in a Garden”

topic: Christmas, Lying, Excellence, Merry Christmas Inspirational, Merry Christmas Wishes

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

- William Arthur Ward

topic: Inspirational, Thanksgiving, Thank You, Social Good, Joy And Gratitude

Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.

- James Russell Lowell

source: James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.122

topic: Giving, Charity, Philanthropy, Philanthropy Giving, Alms

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

- Winston Churchill

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Social Good, Making A Difference In The World

The greatest gift one can give is thanksgiving. In giving gifts, we give what we can spare, but in giving thanks we give ourselves.

- David Steindl-Rast

source: David Steindl-Rast (1984). “Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer: An Approach to Life in Fullness”, p.17, Paulist Press

topic: Gratitude, Giving, Thanks, Gift Giving

You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

- John Bunyan

topic: Motivational, Success, Perseverance, Inspirational Charity, Kindness Generosity

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

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

topic: Inspirational, Angel, Helping Others, Charitable Giving, Co Worker

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Yoga, Social Good, Hunger And Poverty

I've found that giving gifts is transformative. It makes me better. It clarifies my thinking and allows me to do better work.

- Seth Godin

topic: Thinking, Giving, Found, Gift Giving

It's more blessed to give than to receive -- especially kittens.

- Bill Cosby

topic: Blessed, Giving, Kitten, Jesus Inspirational, Help The Poor

Great gift-giving involves three things: you feel what the other feels; you give freely; and you count sacrifice a bargain… those gifts are truly great which are given simply for the joy they bring to another heart.

- Henry B. Eyring

topic: Heart, Sacrifice, Giving, Gift Giving

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

- Seneca the Younger

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Motivational, Caring, Giving, Kindness Generosity, Giving In

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

- Erma Bombeck

topic: Funny, Witty, Humorous, Mentally Tough, National Lampoon

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Kindness, Give It All You Got, Giving Love

Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance.

- Oren Arnold

topic: Tolerance, Enemy, Opponents, Jesus And Christmas, Jesus Christmas

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Inspirational, Life, Happiness, Philanthropic, Contributing

If it's a really good gift, I love receiving it, like jewels, small islands.

- Gina Gershon

topic: Islands, Jewels, Receiving, Extravagant, Receiving Love

You can never truly enjoy Christmas until you can look up into the Father's face and tell him you have received his Christmas gift.

- John R. Rice

topic: Christmas, Father, Faces, Christmas Eve, Merry Christmas Inspirational

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?'

- William Arthur Ward

topic: Thanksgiving, Thank You, Gratitude, I Am Thankful, Spiritual Gratitude

But tell me: how did gold get to be the highest value? Because it is uncommon and useless and gleaming and gentle in its brilliance; it always gives itself. Only as an image of the highest virtue did gold get to be the highest value. The giver's glance gleams like gold. A golden brilliance concludes peace between the moon and the sun. Uncommon is the highest virtue and useless, it is gleaming and gentle in its brilliance: a gift-giving virtue is the highest virtue.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Money, Moon, Giving, Gift Giving

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

- Max Beerbohm

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

topic: Kindness, Giving, Way, Giving In, Gift Giving

Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.

- Amy Tan

source: "Author of The Joy Luck Club". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 28, 1996.

topic: Writing, Giving, Stories, Gift Giving

Having, First, gained all you can, and, Secondly saved all you can, Then give all you can.

- John Wesley

source: "The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A.M". Book edited by John Emory, Volume I, p. 446. Sermon 50: "The Use of Money", 1840.

topic: Money, Giving, Methodists, Frugal, Gift Giving

If we can augment our gift giving by giving more of ourselves to those we love, all the time and in various ways, we will have a good chance of helping them and ourselves live happier, better lives.

- Earl Nightingale

topic: Happiness, Giving, Way, Gift Giving

Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth. Thus I beg and beseech you. Do not let them fly away from earthly things and beat with their wings against eternal walls. Alas, there has always been so much virtue that has flown away. Lead back to the earth the virtue that flew away, as I do—back to the body, back to life, that it may give the earth a meaning, a human meaning.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Brother, Wall, Wings, Giving Love, Earthly Things

There is no greater enjoyment than that of sharing something. Have you given something to somebody? That`s why people enjoy giving gifts so much. It is a sheer delight. When you give something to somebody - maybe valueless, may not be of much value - but just the way, just the gesture that you give, satisfies tremendously. Just think of a person whose whole life is a gift! whose every moment is a sharing - he lives in heaven. There is no other heaven than that.

- Rajneesh

topic: Thinking, People, Giving, Valueless, Life Is A Gift

Here's my gift-giving rule: Respect your current financial situation.

- Suze Orman

topic: Giving, Financial, Currents, Gift Giving

Laminated Lettuce ... perfect for holiday gift giving.

- Alton Brown

topic: Holiday, Giving, Perfect, Lettuce, Gift Giving

I love giving gifts and I love receiving them. I really like giving little kids extravagant gifts. You see their little faces light up and they get excited. If it's a really good gift, I love receiving it, like jewels, small islands.

- Gina Gershon

topic: Christmas, Kids, Jewels, Gift Giving

Christmas is the time for celebration, so I'm not against decorating, putting on lights, buying gifts. In fact, the whole reason we give gifts is the wise men gave gifts to Jesus at the first Christmas, and that started the gift-giving process.

- Rick Warren

topic: Wise, Jesus, Men, Gift Giving

We're deep into the holiday gift-giving season, as you can tell from the fact that everywhere you look, you see jolly old St. Nick urging you to purchase things, to the point where you want to slug him right in his bowl full of jelly.

- Dave Barry

topic: Humorous, Holiday, Giving, Jolly, Gift Giving

Well, because I have twin seven-year-old boys, I enjoy the gift giving stuff a great deal. We do both Hanukkah and Christmas, so it is a costly, though extremely pleasing proposition.

- Fred Melamed

topic: Boys, Years, Giving, Hanukkah, Gift Giving

Man and man's earth are unexhausted and undiscovered. Wake and listen! Verily, the earth shall yet be a source of recovery. Remain faithful to the earth, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Recovery, Men, Giving Love, Gift Giving

The person who has the motivational gift of giving has a tremendous opportunity to be a blessing to others in the body of Christ, to encourage others in the proper use of their finances, and to make the extension of the Gospel possible.

- Charles Stanley

topic: Blessing, Opportunity, Giving, Gift Giving, Blessing To Others

It's not just an exclamation, but it's a rejection of everything to do with Christmas, with the spirit of Christmas, with gift-giving, with generosity.

- Patrick Stewart

topic: Christmas, Generosity, Giving, Gift Giving, Exclamation

I think I would say to my daughters if they were to ask me this question... it [their virginity] is the greatest gift that you can give someone, the ultimate gift of giving and don't give it to someone lightly, that's what I would say.

- Tony Abbott

source: "The Monk might make sense" by Katharine Murphy, www.theage.com.au. January 28, 2010.

topic: Daughter, Thinking, Giving, Gift Giving