Giving To Others Quotes

By GIVING to others, instead of GETTING, we can still find we have everything we need in Christ.

The mystery of poverty is that by sharing in it, making ourselves poor in giving to others, we increase our knowledge of and belief in love.

I often find it easier to be teaching or giving to others, and often struggle with the place of my own pleasure and joy.

FORGIVING is FOR GIVING to others and if it is meant FOR GETTING to ourselves then should it not be termed as FORGETTING ourselves.

In Benedictine spirituality, work is what we do to continue what God wanted done....God goes on creating through us. Consequently a life spent serving God must be a life spent giving to others what we have been given.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.

You cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually giving - and getting. You cannot hold on to your seed. You must sow it - and reap anew. You cannot hold on to riches. You must use them and get other riches in return.

Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.

The more we have given to ourselves, the more we have to give to others. When we find that place within ourselves that is giving, we begin to create an outward flow. Giving to others comes not from a sense of sacrifice, self-righteousness, or spirituality, but for the pure pleasure of it, because it's fun. Giving can only come from a full, loving space.

Giving to other people makes me feel alive. Not my car or my house. Not what I look like in the mirror. When I give my time, when I can make someone smile after they were feeling sad.

There is no time like the present.

I think it's false, shallow, to be giving to others when your own need is great. The idea is not to comfort people, not to make them feel better but to make them feel worse, to constantly put before them the degradations and humiliations they go through to get what they call a living wage.

Giving to others selflesly and anonymously, radiating light throughout the world and illuminating your own darkness, your virtue becomes a sanctuary for yourself and all beings.

Giving to others is the greatest gift you can give yourself.

When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self - giving is a personal power - releasing factor.

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

I like video games, but they're really violent. I'd like to play a video game where you help the people who were shot in all the other games. It'd be called 'Really Busy Hospital.

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

I don't want to live in the kind of world where we don't look out for each other. Not just the people that are close to us, but anybody who needs a helping hand. I cant change the way anybody else thinks, or what they choose to do, but I can do my bit.

Most of America's leading entrepreneurs are bound to the masts of their fortunes. They are allowed to keep their wealth only as long as they invest it in others. In a real sense, they can keep only what they give away. It has been given to others in the form of investments. It is embodied in a vast web of enterprises that retains its worth only through constant work and sacrifice. Capitalism is a system that begins not with taking but with giving to others.

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

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.

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.

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.

The very first step toward giving to others is grateful recognition of our own assets.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.

The most popular form of altruism is giving to others the advice you cannot use yourself.

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.

We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

We can do no great things-only small things with great love.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

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

The income tax is bad because it was conceived in class hatred, is an instrument of vengeance and plays right into the hands of the communists. It employs the vicious communist principle of taking from each according to his accumulation of the fruits of his labor and giving to others according to their needs, regardless of whether those needs are the result of indolence, or lack of pride, self-respect, personal dignity or other attributes of men.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.