What is a good and famous quotes about the gift of giving?

Question

It could be in the Bible, books, documents, and etc.

Answer 1

You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.
Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)

The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
Baltasar Gracian

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
Charles Dudley Warner (1829 - 1900), 'Eleventh Study,' Backlog Studies, 1873

Every gift, though it be small, is in reality great if given with affection. -John Wolcot (1738 - 1819)

A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver.
Eleanor Hamilton

There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.
Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Medea, 431 B.C.
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
George Eliot (1819 - 1880)

Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)

He is a good man who can receive a gift well. -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.
John Wesley (1703 - 1791)

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)

Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.
Lenore Hershey

You try to give away what you want yourself.
Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996

If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach.
Margaret Cho, weblog, 03-09-04

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
Norman Douglas

What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.
P. D. James, Time to Be in Earnest

A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.
Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Moral Sayings, 100 B.C.

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.
Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Maxims

The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.
Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), Letters to Lucilius, 100 A.D.

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)

Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.
Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)

Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, 1600

Answer 2

Albert Einstein:
It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.

Anne Frank:
No one has ever become poor by giving.

Barbara Bush:
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.

Charles Dickens:
Charity begins at home and justice begins next door.

Elbert Hubbard:
The love we give away is the only love we keep.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning:
God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers,
And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face,
A gauntlet with a gift in it.

John D. Rockefeller Jr.:
Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege.

Maimonides:
Anticipate charity by preventing poverty; assist the reduced fellow man, either by a considerable gift or a sum of money or by teaching him a trade or by putting him in the way of business so that he may earn an honest livelihood and not be forced to the dreadful alternative of holding out his hand for charity. This is the highest step and summit of charity's golden ladder.

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

Pamela Glenconner:
Giving presents is a talent; to know what a person wants, to know when and how to get it, to give it lovingly and well. Unless a character possesses this talent there is no moment more annihilating to ease than that in which a present is received and given.

Peyton Conway March:
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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:
We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:
We wish to be self-sustained. We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.

Thornton Wilder:
Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.
from "The Matchmaker"

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

Answer 3

Every gift, though it be small, is in reality great if given with affection. -John Wolcot (1738 - 1819)

He is a good man who can receive a gift well. -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

Answer 4

It is better to give than to receive. It is not the gift that counts, it is the thought.

Answer 5

" From where the Sun now stands, I will fight no more, forever. " Chief Joseph " The Buck stops here. " ill. Harry S. Truman " without life there can be no death, without death ther can be no life. " " The more you know the more you find out you don't know. " " He who knows what he knows and he who knows what he does not know is typical of one who knows. " Confucius " It is a good day to die. " Chief Crazy Horse " Praise the LORD and pass the ammunition. " " GOD made man both big and small but Colonel Colt made them all equal. "

Answer 6

the gift of giving just keeps on giving.

and


no act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Answer 7

You reap what you sew

and the poor widow who gave 2 mites (2cents)
She gave more then all the rich people because they gave the extra money they don't need but she gave from her poverty

Answer 8

You can give without loving but, It is impossible to love without giving.

Answer 9

It is better to give than to receive.