Top 200 Quotes About Giving (2025 Update)

1. “If you can’t feed a hundred people, feed just one.”

— Mother Teresa

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2. “The measure of your life will not be in what you accumulate, but in what you give away.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

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3. “Give out what you most want to come back.”

— Robin S. Sharma

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4. “Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. ”

— Khalil Gibran

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5. “When you get to a place where you don’t go for what you can get, but you go for what you can give, you gonna see your life change tremendously.”

— Eric Thomas

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6. “I’m blessed to be a blessing to someone else.”

— Joel Osteen

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7. “A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in his love than in your weakness.”

— Mother Teresa

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8. “Let us give something to each person we meet: joy, courage, hope, assurance, or philosophy, wisdom, a vision for the future. Let us always give something.”

— Daisaku Ikeda

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

— Maya Angelou

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10. “The person who gives with a smile is the best giver because God loves a cheerful giver.”

— Mother Teresa

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11. “Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas.”

— Dale Evans

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12. “You will receive abundance for your giving. The more you give, the more you will have!”

— W. Clement Stone

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13. “The more we give, the more we receive. It’s important to give back, because the seeds you plant today, you will harvest tomorrow.”

— Farrah Gray

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14. “A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy.”

— Mother Teresa

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15. “Don’t save up love like you’re trying to retire on it; give it away like you’re made of it.”

— Bob Goff

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16. “A little bit of fragrance always clings to the hands that give you roses.”

— Robin S. Sharma

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17. “The way to achieve your own success is to be willing to help somebody else get it first.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

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18. “A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.”

— George Bernard Shaw

19. “If you want the best the world has to offer, offer the world your best.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

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20. “I must be willing to give whatever it takes to do good to others. This requires that I be willing to give until it hurts. Otherwise, there is no true love in me, and I bring injustice, not peace, to those around me.”

— Mother Teresa

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21. “The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.”

— Brian Tracy

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22. “You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.”

— Amy Carmichael

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

— William Arthur Ward

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24. “The greatest thing is to give thanks for everything. He who has learned this knows what it means to live. He has penetrated the whole mystery of life: giving thanks for everything.”

— Albert Schweitzer

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25. “Charity is the root of all good works.”

— Saint Augustine

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26. “In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange.”

— Brennan Manning

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27. “In everything give thanks.”

— Paul the Apostle

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28. “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

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29. “If you want to be happy, make someone else happy. If you want to find the right person in your life, be the right person. If you want to see change in the world, become the change you want to see.”

— Deepak Chopra

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30. “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

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31. “Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.”

— C. S. Lewis

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32. “Even the least work done for others awakens the power within; even thinking the least good of others gradually instills into the heart the strength of a lion.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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33. “Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!”

— Neil Gaiman

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34. “I cannot do all the good that the world needs. But the world needs all the good that I can do.”

— Jana Stanfield

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35. “Keep putting out good. It will come back to you tenfold in unexpected ways.”

— Farrah Gray

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36. “If you are a taker of happiness you get misery, if you are a giver of happiness you get joy and love.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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37. “Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.”

— Og Mandino

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38. “We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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39. “Hands that serve are holier than lips that pray.”

— Sai Baba

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40. “One thing that I ask of you: Never be afraid of giving. There is a deep joy in giving, since what we receive is much more than what we give.”

— Mother Teresa

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41. “How do we change the world? One random act of kindness at a time.”

— Morgan Freeman

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42. “There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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43. “When times get tough, we don’t give up. We get up.”

— Barack Obama

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44. “Lean on me, when you’re not strong and I’ll be your friend, I’ll help you carry on.”

— Bill Withers

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45. “The only way you can serve God is by serving other people.”

— Rick Warren

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46. “What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.”

— Saint Augustine

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47. “Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.”

— Charles M. Schulz

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48. “As we lose ourselves in the service of others, we discover our own lives and our own happiness.”

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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49. “Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God.”

— Muhammad Ali

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50. “Love cannot remain by itself – it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action is service. Whatever form we are, able or disabled, rich or poor, it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing; a lifelong sharing of love with others.”

— Mother Teresa

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