Quotes and Saying About Giving

As Thanksgiving comes around the corner, we often think of giving thanks. (And maybe buying Christmas gifts too!) However, if we thought of giving and sharing throughout the year, it would make a world wonderful and friendliest place to live. Don’t you think?

Quotes About Giving

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

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

Generosity consists not the sum given, but the manner in which it is bestowed.
— Author Unknown

In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.
— Flora Edwards

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.
— Mother Teresa

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.
— Frank A. Clark

There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.
— Nathaniel Branden

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of this world is not ‘to have and to hold’ but ‘to give and serve.”
— Sir Wilfred T. Grinfell

Only a powerful soul can offer love. Only a powerful soul can afford to be humble. If we are weak, then we become selfish. If we are empty, we take; but if we are filled, we automatically give to all. That is our nature.
– Dadi Prakashmani

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
— Robert A. Heinlein

Whatever you spend is gone. What you keep, someone else gets. What you give is yours forever.
— Dr. Wil Rose

There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life — happiness, freedom, and peace of mind — are always attained by giving them to someone else.
— Peyton Conway March

To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.
— Benjamin Franklin

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

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
— Lao Tzu

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
— Arthur Ashe

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
— Disraeli

You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.
— Zig Ziglar

At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done. We will be judged by ‘I was hungry and you gave me to eat, I was naked and you clothed me, I was homeless and you took me in.’ Hungry not only for bread — but hungry for love. Naked not only for clothing — but naked for human dignity and respect. Homeless not only for want of a room of bricks — but homeless because of rejection.
— Mother Teresa

Giving is the highest expression of potency. In the very act of giving, I experience my strength, my wealth, my power. This experience of heightened vitality and potency fills me with joy. I experience myself as overflowing, spending, alive, hence as joyous. Giving is more joyous than receiving, not because it is a deprivation, but because in the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness.
— Erich Fromm

Meaningful Wisdom Quotes

Wisdom is something we only achieve with experience and age. Lucky for us, there are many wise men and women that came before us so we can listen and be inspire from them. Here are some meaningful and uplifting Wisdom Quotes.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
— Helen Keller

Don’t be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
— Grace Hansen

The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life’s plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.
— Robert Louis Stevenson

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
— Lady Dorothy Nevill

Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it with use.
— Ruth Gordon

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers, and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
— Goethe

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.
— Fredrick Koeing

When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don’t blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and arguments. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding.
— Thich Nhat Hahn

At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict, or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
— Barbara Bush

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.
— Groucho Marx

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
and though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love, but not your thoughts.
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.
–Kahlil Gibran

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.
— Dalai Lama

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.
— Dale Carnegie

 

Yet More Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Abraham Lincoln was US President, leader and very much inspiring person for many. You can more about his life fiction and nonfiction by clicking here. Abraham Lincoln.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, “Truth is the daughter of Time.”
Abraham Lincoln

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Abraham Lincoln

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
Abraham Lincoln

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.
Abraham Lincoln

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.
Abraham Lincoln

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
Abraham Lincoln

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.
Abraham Lincoln

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Abraham Lincoln

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
Abraham Lincoln

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
Abraham Lincoln

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
Abraham Lincoln

The assertion that “all men are created equal” was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.
Abraham Lincoln

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Abraham Lincoln

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
Abraham Lincoln

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
Abraham Lincoln

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
Abraham Lincoln

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
Abraham Lincoln

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
Abraham Lincoln

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Abraham Lincoln

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Abraham Lincoln

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
Abraham Lincoln

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
Abraham Lincoln

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
Abraham Lincoln

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
Abraham Lincoln

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Mood Lifting Quotes: Uplifting Inspirational Quotes To Cheer Up With

We can all use motivational and inspirational uplifting quotes to cheer us up from time to time. Here are some uplifting quotes to cheer up with.

“Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.” -Richard Feynman

“What a doctor or healer tells you is a reflection of the beliefs and expectations you hold. Change your beliefs and you change the prognosis. Who is the doctor? The mind of the patient.” -Alan Cohen

“Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand, and melting like a snowflake.” -Marie Beyon Ray

“Awareness is our true self; it’s what we are. So we don’t have to try to develop awareness; we simply need to notice how we block awareness with our thoughts, our fantasies, our opinions, and our judgments. We’re either in awareness, which is our natural state, or we’re doing something else.” -Joko Beck

“The challenge is to believe your dreams in the center of illusion.” -Emmanuel (Pat Rodegast)

“I wanted a perfect ending.. Now, I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.” -Gilda Radner

“The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.” -Samuel Johnson

“And, when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of Heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.” {Romeo and Juliet} – -William Shakespeare

“True love is the most enduring of all of life’s worldly possessions, never tarnishing over time but ever to remain bright and brilliant in the light of love.” -Joseph P. Martino

“True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.” -Jeremy Collier

“Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.” -Dale Turner

“A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.” -Isaac Newton

“Every now and again take a good look at something not made with hands – a mountain, a star, the turn of a stream. There will come to you wisdom and patience and solace and, above all, the assurance that you are not alone in the world.” -Sidney Lovett

“To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the enlightened mind the whole world sparkles and burns.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our own ignorance about ourselves.” -Carl Sagan

“Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.” -Dinah Craik

“All day I have been tossed and whirled in a preposterous happiness; was it an elf in the blood? Or a bird in the brain? Or even part of the cloudily crested, fifty-league-long, loud, uplifted wave of a journeying angels transit over and through my heart?” -C.S. Lewis

“There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression of a laughter — loving spirit that defies analysis by the philosopher, which has nothing rigid or mechanical in it, and totally without social significance. Bubbling spontaneously from the heart of child or man. Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.” -Sir William Osler

“To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.” -Henry David Thoreau

“Be inspired with the belief that life is a great and noble calling; not a mean and groveling thing that we are to shuffle through as we can, but an elevated and lofty destiny.”- William E. Gladstone

“A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.” -Edwin H. Chapin