Giving To Others Quotes:

When giving to others do not linger on thoughts of a giving, what was given, or the one who has received.

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Generosity, Giving, Giving To Others

When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Thanksgiving, Thankful, Gratitude, Inspirational Gratitude, Gratitude And Appreciation

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: "The Power of Purpose: Find Meaning, Live Longer, Better". Book by Richard Leider, p. 35., 2010.

topic: Encouragement, Freedom, Business, Way In Life, Social Good

Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

- Booker T. Washington

source: Booker T. Washington (2016). “Up from Slavery”, p.41, Open Road Media

topic: Happiness, Helping Others, Compassion, Joy Of Giving, Giving Help

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

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

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

topic: Inspirational, Friendship, Positive, Social Entrepreneurship, Making A Difference In The World

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

- Albert Pike

source: Albert Pike (1899). “Ex Corde Locutiones...: Words from the Heart Spoken of His Dead Brethren...”

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Thank You, Inspirational Death, Kindness Generosity

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

- George Eliot

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Marriage Problems, Inspirational Relationship

Charity isn't about pity, it is about love.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Charity, Pity, Charity And Giving, Charity And Love, Patronizing

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.

- John Wesley

source: 'Rule of Conduct' in 'Letters' (1915)

topic: Life, Motivational, Christmas, Kindness Generosity, Inspiring Volunteer

Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.

- Barbara Bush

topic: Memorable, Generosity, Giving, Joy Of Giving, Unexplained

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

- Muhammad Ali

source: Twitter post from May 26, 2010

topic: Basketball, Fighting, Helping Others, Making A Difference In The World, Social Service

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

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.

- Nelson Henderson

source: "Under Whose Shade". Book by Wesley Henderson, 1982.

topic: Graduation, Tree, Shade, Meaning Life, Arbor Day

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Inspirational, Life, Spiritual, Joy Of Giving, Spiritual Soul

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

- Albert Schweitzer

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspirational Service, Acts Of Kindness

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

- Henry Ford

topic: Life, Money, Inspiration, Makin Money, Betterment

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

- William James

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Social Good, Make Me Feel Better

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Powerful, Deepest Fear, Our Deepest Fear, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech

It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

- Robert Kennedy

source: Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

topic: Change, Courage, Peace, Social Injustice, Justice And Injustice

Give, but give until it hurts.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Hurt, Help And Support, Charity And Generosity

To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Life, Success, Live For Yourself, Social Life

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Life, Happiness, Depression, Joy Happiness, Joy Of Giving

If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

- Bob Hope

topic: Life, Happiness, Success, Inspirational Charity, Kind People

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

- Charles Dickens

source: "Our Mutual Friend". Book by harles Dickens, 1865.

topic: Love, Inspirational, Family, Joy Of Giving, Inspirational Charity

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

- Mother Teresa

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

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

We can do no great things-only small things with great love.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Life, Encouraging, Time, Giving Love, Small Things In Life

Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Helping Others, Love Is, Hands, Others Helping You, Charity And Giving

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of one's self. We must be purposely kind and generous, or we miss the best part of existence. The heart that goes out of itself, gets large and full of joy. This is the great secret of the inner life. We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.

- Horace Mann

source: "Thoughts" by Jessie K. Freeman and Sarah S. B. Yule, (p. 83), 1901.

topic: Heart, Helping Others, Self, Inner Life, Undoing

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

- Audrey Hepburn

topic: Inspirational, Successful, Helping Others, Hungry For Knowledge, Help Yourself

You cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually giving - and getting. You cannot hold on to your seed. You must sow it - and reap anew. You cannot hold on to riches. You must use them and get other riches in return.

- Robert Collier

topic: Giving, Use, Riches, Power Of Visualization, Giving To Others

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

- Nelson Mandela

topic: Inspirational, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech, Individual Expression, Insecure People

I like video games, but they're really violent. I'd like to play a video game where you help the people who were shot in all the other games. It'd be called 'Really Busy Hospital.

- Demetri Martin

topic: Funny, Motivational, Im Sorry, Helping People, Giving To Others

If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Life, Thinking, Helping Others, Others Helping You, Altruism

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Inspiring, Confidence, Children, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech

There is no time like the present...

- Georgia Byng

source: Georgia Byng (2009). “Molly Moon's Hypnotic Time-Travel Adventure”, p.113, Pan Macmillan

topic: Early Bird, Offering Advice, Present Time, Proverbs Wisdom, Giving Help

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

topic: Morning, Helping Others, Volunteer, Joy Of Giving, Generosity And Giving

Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.

- Criss Jami

topic: Giving, Matter, Poor, Giving To Others, Giving To The Poor

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

- Henry Ford

topic: Positive, Money, Time, Time And Money, Helping People

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Constructive Criticism, Criticism Of Others

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

- Edmund Burke

topic: Life, Encouragement, Time, Making A Living, Not Enough Time

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Life, Helping Others, Making A Living, Source Of Life

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Making A Difference In The World, Source Of Life

No one has ever become poor by giving.

- Anne Frank

topic: Inspirational, Morning, Kindness, Giving Love, Charitable

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Happiness, Happy, Buddhist, Making A Difference In The World, Joy Happiness