Giving Quotes

George Bush doesn't care about black people, ... They're saying black families are looting and white families are just looking for food...they're giving the (Army) permission to shoot us

Kanye West

For it is in giving that we receive.

St. Francis of Assisi

This is Christmas: not the tinsel, not the giving and receiving, not even the carols, but the humble heart that receives anew the wondrous gift, the Christ.

Frank McKibben

It is the personal thoughtfulness, the warm human awareness, the reaching out of the self to one's fellow man that makes giving worthy of the Christmas spirit.

Isabel Currier

For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home.

W. J. Tucker

Failing doesn't make you a failure. Giving up, accepting your failure, refusing to try again does!

Richard Exely

Christmas is the season of joy, of holiday greetings exchanged, of gift-giving,and of families united.

Norman Vincent Peale

Christmas is a time to expand our giving encompassing the friendless and needy ... near and far. Christmas is sharing.

Patricia Clafford

(Forests are) the "lungs" of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.

Franklin D. Roosevel

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

What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.

FranÁois de la Rochefoucauld

What you say of the pride of giving life to an immortal soul is very fine dear, but I own I cannot enter into that: I think much more of our being like a cow or a dog at such moments: when our poor nature becomes so very animal and unecstatic

Queen Victoria

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

Kahlil Gibran

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 the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking around.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.

Malcolm Muggeridge