Welcome to Giving Quotes – a treasure trove of inspiring and heartfelt quotations dedicated to the noble act of giving. Giving is a powerful and universal gesture that transcends borders, cultures, and backgrounds. Whether it’s a simple act of kindness, a charitable donation, or offering your time and support, giving enriches both the giver and the receiver. In this collection, you will find a diverse array of quotes that celebrate the beauty of giving, its transformative impact on our lives, and the boundless compassion it embodies.
Discover words of wisdom, encouragement, and reflection from renowned thinkers, philanthropists, and everyday heroes. These quotes are not only meant to inspire but also to empower you to embrace the spirit of giving in your own life. Whether you’re looking for a source of motivation, a meaningful message to share with others, or simply seeking a way to add a touch of inspiration to your projects, you’ve come to the right place. Below, you’ll find an assortment of quotes on giving that you can easily copy, place on images, or enhance with stylish fonts to amplify their impact and share the love. So, let’s embark on this journey of generosity and kindness, and may these quotes be a beacon of light, reminding us of the immense power of giving.
Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing. Anais Nin
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. Oscar Wilde
Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. Henri Poincare
Health care is not a privilege. It’s a right. It’s a right as fundamental as civil rights. It’s a right as fundamental as giving every child a chance to get a public education. Rod Blagojevich
Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth – look at the dying man’s struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment. Soren Kierkegaard
I always say that my biggest fear in a relationship is cheating, and people giving up. Kaitlyn Bristowe
Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving. B. C. Forbes
The great powers of the world may have done wonders in giving the world an industrial look, but the great gift still has to come from Africa – giving the world a more human face. Steven Biko
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. George Eliot
Loving a child doesn’t mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult. Nadia Boulanger
I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver. Maya Angelou
The moment when you feel like giving up is right before your breakthrough. Victoria Arlen
Be greedy for social change, and your life will be endlessly enriched. The only failure lies in not trying, or giving up. Ann Cotton
God is so unique in giving His people ways to fellowship, witness, and remember what a mighty and merciful God He is. Monica Johnson
Never stop, never give up, never stop giving yourself the self-confidence you need to be a champion. Diego Sanchez
The table is a meeting place, a gathering ground, the source of sustenance and nourishment, festivity, safety, and satisfaction. A person cooking is a person giving: Even the simplest food is a gift. Laurie Colwin
I saw that giving even all my life to God (supposing it possible to do this and go no further) would profit me nothing unless I gave my heart, yea, all my heart, to Him. John Wesley
Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing. John D. Rockefeller
The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves. Steven Spielberg
The more one forgets himself – by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love – the more human he is. Viktor E. Frankl
Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself. Robert Green Ingersoll
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. Robert Louis Stevenson
What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what’s thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going. Patrick Swayze
Giving and receiving kindness are easy ways to feel good and to help others feel good too. People, organizations, and societies thrive when they are grounded in a culture of kindness. Vivek Murthy
There was no giving up. Trying and trying. That’s what I’m all about. Sonita Alizadeh
In my life I’ve learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we’re all searching for. I haven’t come across anyone who didn’t become a better person through love. Marla Gibbs
Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you. Joel Osteen
Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature. Camille Paglia
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves. Albert Einstein
If you look at history, innovation doesn’t come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect. Steven Johnson
Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love? Fulton J. Sheen
Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable. Joe Biden
Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process. Jim Rohn
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. P. J. O’Rourke
Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take. Christopher Reeve
Winning is fun… Sure. But winning is not the point. Wanting to win is the point. Not giving up is the point. Never letting up is the point. Never being satisfied with what you’ve done is the point. Pat Summitt
By giving people the power to share, we’re making the world more transparent. Mark Zuckerberg
Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values. Thomas S. Monson
In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way. Iris Murdoch
Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one’s soul. Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life. I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally non-violent struggle for justice. Cesar Chavez
Never die easy. Why run out of bounds and die easy? Make that linebacker pay. It carries into all facets of your life. It’s okay to lose, to die, but don’t die without trying, without giving it your best. Walter Payton
Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving. Erma Bombeck
What a brutish master sin is, taking the joy from one’s life, stealing money and health, giving promise of tomorrow’s pleasures, and finally leading one onto the rotten planking that overlies the mouth of the pit. Jim Elliot
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. Henri Nouwen
It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life’s parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time. Simone de Beauvoir
I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way. Gustav Mahler
People are at their best when they are challenged. If we don’t challenge ourselves, nature has a way of giving us challenges anyway. There is great value in our struggles, and human nature has shown us that we only value the things we struggle to achieve. Thomas Frey
I got my start by giving myself a start. Madam C. J. Walker
I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I’ve learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience. Taylor Swift
Giving opens the way for receiving. Florence Scovel Shinn
When you’re in a position to have gotten so much, the gift at this point is giving back. Paul Stanley
Giving is true having. Charles Spurgeon
When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it’s like giving them emotional oxygen. Stephen Covey
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn. Gore Vidal
A horse is the projection of peoples’ dreams about themselves – strong, powerful, beautiful – and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence. Pam Brown
I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate – it’s apathy. It’s not giving a damn. Leo Buscaglia
Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath. Arnold H. Glasow
Every night on the court I give my all, and if I’m not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself. LeBron James
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner’s inquest. H. L. Mencken
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away. Elbert Hubbard
Many churches are measuring the wrong things. We measure things like attendance and giving, but we should be looking at more fundamental things like anger, contempt, honesty, and the degree to which people are under the thumb of their lusts. Those things can be counted, but not as easily as offerings. Dallas Willard
I believe in never giving up, no matter what the odds. My mantra is, ‘Failure is temporary. Giving up is permanent.’ Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. George MacDonald
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. Lao Tzu
For it is in giving that we receive. Francis of Assisi
Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it. Pablo Casals
Two halves don’t make a whole. Two wholes make a whole. In my relationship, I was giving myself away to make the relationship better, but in actuality, wasn’t doing better by doing that. I became less of a man. Jason Mraz
The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries! Moreover, some politician who wants his vote will declare all these things to be among his ‘basic rights.’ Thomas Sowell
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. Marilyn vos Savant
I ain’t giving up on myself, so if you give up on me, I ain’t got nothing else to say for you. Future
I think we’ve taken the meaning of Christmas out. People don’t stop and think about Jesus or the birth of Jesus. When they think of Christmas, they think of Santa Claus and – for the children, and they think of giving gifts and out-giving the next person of spending their time looking for the right thing for somebody who has everything. Billy Graham
People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. I was not tired physically… No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in. Rosa Parks
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. William Arthur Ward
Giving up cannot be an option. Greta Thunburg
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men’s minds. Thurgood Marshall
Everybody, not just stars, should take up the responsibility of giving back to society. It doesn’t matter how much you give, but what really matters is if you are willing to give something. Ali
Life is a series of baby steps along the way and if you add up these tiny little steps you take toward your goal, whatever it is, whether it’s giving up something, a terrible addiction or trying to work your way through an illness. When you total up those baby steps you’d be amazed over the course of 10 years, the strides you’ve taken. Hoda Kotb
Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true. Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I’ve been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times. Aimee Mullins
The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates. Gabe Newell
The giving of love is an education in itself. Eleanor Roosevelt
I think people who multitask pay a huge price. They think they’re being extra productive, and I think when you multitask so much you don’t have time to think about anything deeply, you are giving the world an advantage you shouldn’t do, and practically everybody is drifting into that mistake. Charlie Munger
If you quit every time you face a new challenge, giving up can change how you view yourself. You may begin to think you’re weak or that you’re a failure because you can’t seem to stick with things long enough to see positive results. Amy Morin
Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The cost of college education today is so high that many young people are giving up their dream of going to college, while many others are graduating deeply in debt. Bernie Sanders
My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack. Ferdinand Foch
The first thing I do every day when I wake up is thank God for letting me make it through the night and giving me another day of life – just because sometimes I wake up, and I cannot believe I’m doing what I’m doing. I just thank Him. I don’t know how I deserve it, but it’s completely because of Him. Lauren Alaina
Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go. Mother Teresa
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times. Mark Twain
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure. Dale Carnegie
The two words ‘information’ and ‘communication’ are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through. Sydney J. Harris
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. Thomas A. Edison
Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple. Bill Shankly
The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when. Simon Sinek
Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That’s why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange. Mortimer Adler
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. Khalil Gibran
I believe in giving more than 100% on the field, and I don’t really worry about the result if there’s great commitment on the field. That’s victory for me. MS Dhoni
I’m giving into my tendency to want to blur and blend the lines between art and life, and privacy and sharing. Lia Ices
