Top 200 Quotes About Giving (2025 Update)
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101. “I don’t give up because I don’t give up. I don’t believe in it.”

— Johnny Cash

102. “For it is in giving that we receive.”

— Francis of Assisi

103. “Sometimes it takes only one act of kindness and caring to change a person’s life.”

— Jackie Chan

104. “The secret of success is to find a need and fill it, to find a hurt and heal it, to find somebody with a problem and offer to help solve it.”

— Robert H. Schuller

105. “Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.”

— Katharine Hepburn

106. “The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.”

— Corrie ten Boom

107. “We are all woven together in the great web of humanity, and whatever we can do to benefit and uplift others will reflect in blessing upon ourselves.”

— Ellen G. White

108. “When we help one another, everybody wins.”

— Jim Stovall

109. “Never give up. When your heart becomes tired, just walk with your legs – but move on.”

— Paulo Coelho

110. “What you make happen for others, God will make happen for you.”

— Mike Murdock

111. “You get what you give. What you put into things is what you get out of them.”

— Jennifer López

112. “It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.”

— Mother Teresa

113. “You can’t live a perfect day until you do something for someone who will never be able to repay you.”

— John Wooden

114. “Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.”

— Mother Teresa

115. “If you have achieved any level of success, then pour it into someone else. Success is not success without a successor.”

— T.D. Jakes

116. “Love must express itself as service.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

117. “Selflessness. It should be the basis of every relationship. If a person truly cares about you, they’ll get more pleasure from the way they make you feel, rather than the way you make them feel.”

— Colleen Hoover

118. “Never give up on anyone. And that includes not giving up on yourself.”

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

119. “Life can’t give to you if your hands are closed. Open your mind, open your heart, and open your arms.”

— Louise Hay

120. “Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.”

— Elizabeth Bibesco

121. “God will not be outdone in generosity.”

— Ignatius of Loyola

122. “Give your hands to serve and your hearts to love.”

— Mother Teresa

123. “If every man would help his neighbor, no man would be without help.”

— Bruce Lee

124. “We must use our lives to make the world a better place to live, not just to acquire things. That is what we are put on the earth for.”

— Dolores Huerta

125. “Whenever you serve others in any way, you are actually serving God.”

— Rick Warren

126. “It is not what you gather but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived.”

— Helen Walton

127. “Listen, O drop, give yourself up without regret, and in exchange gain the Ocean.”

— Rumi

128. “To give someone a piece of your heart, is worth more than all the wealth in the world.”

— Michael Jackson

129. “The secret to wealth is simple: Find a way to do more for others than anyone else does. Become more valuable. Do more. Give more. Be more. Serve more. And you will have the opportunity to earn more.”

— Tony Robbins

130. “No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.”

— Calvin Coolidge

131. “When we help ourselves, we find moments of happiness. When we help others, we find lasting fulfillment.”

— Simon Sinek

132. “The most meaningful way to succeed is to help others succeed.”

— Adam Grant

133. “From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.”

— Arthur Ashe

134. “The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.”

— Robert F. Kennedy

135. “Only by being a man or woman for others does one become fully human.”

— Pedro Arrupe

136. “Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

137. “The currency of real networking is not greed but generosity.”

— Keith Ferrazzi

138. “You commit yourself to such a level where there is no compromise. You give everything you have, everything, absolutely everything.”

— Ayrton Senna

139. “A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it’s less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.”

— Bill Gates

140. “Giving is the secret of abundance.”

— Sivananda

141. “The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.”

— Kalu Ndukwe Kalu

142. “If you’re in the luckiest 1 percent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 percent.”

— Warren Buffett

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

— George Eliot

144. “Leave people better than you found them.”

— Marvin J. Ashton

145. “All that you give to others you are giving to yourself.”

— Anthony de Mello

146. “You have given it all to me. To you, Lord, I return it. Everything is yours; do with it what you will. Give me only your love and grace. That is enough for me.”

— Ignatius of Loyola

147. “There is nothing more beautiful than someone who goes out of their way to make life beautiful for others.”

— Mandy Hale

148. “There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.”

— Khalil Gibran

149. “Life is an echo. What you send out comes back. What you sow, you reap. What you give, you get. What you see in others, exists in you.”

— Zig Ziglar

150. “Before death takes away what you are given, give away what there is to give.”

— Rumi