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Giving Quotes by Famous Authors

1. “Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege.”

John D. Rockefeller

2. “Never think you need to apologize for asking someone to give to a worthy cause, any more than as though you were giving him or her an opportunity to participate in a high-grade investment. The duty of giving is as much his or hers as is the duty of asking yours.”

John D. Rockefeller

3. “Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.”

John D. Rockefeller

4. “I never would have been able to tithe the first million dollars I ever made if I had not tithed my first salary, which was $1.50 per week.”

John D. Rockefeller

5. “Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.”

John D. Rockefeller

6. “The best philanthropy is constantly in search of the finalities—a search for a cause, an attempt to cure evils at their source.”

John D. Rockefeller

7. “Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.”

John D. Rockefeller

8. “Long ago I lost the joy in living. The only joy I have is in my giving.”

John D. Rockefeller

9. “Giving is the secret to a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has to give of encouragement, sympathy, and understanding.”

John D. Rockefeller

10. “I spent the first half of my life making money and the second half of my life giving it away to do the most good and the least harm.”

Andrew Carnegie

11. “It is more difficult to give money away intelligently than to earn it in the first place.”

Andrew Carnegie

12. “Wealth is not to feed our egos but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves.”

Andrew Carnegie

13. “I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.”

Andrew Carnegie

14. “The sole purpose of being rich is to give away money.”

Andrew Carnegie

15. “Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.”

Charles Lamb

16. “Mother’s love grows by giving.”

Charles Lamb

17. “Be not frightened at the hard words “imposition,” “imposture;” give and ask no questions. Cast thy bread upon the waters. Some have, unawares, entertained angels.”

Charles Lamb

18. “You always get back much more than you give.”

Jimmy Carter

19. “Philanthropy is not about helping others, it’s about helping yourself. When you change, the world changes.”

Jack Ma

20. “The competition between me and Bill Gates, probably: Who can spend money more effectively that can do better philanthropy.”

Jack Ma

21. “I am not giving so much of my wealth that I should feel that I am a philanthropist.”

Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

22. “Apart from being motivation for themselves, I think big givers should also talk about their philanthropy so that their work and their success stories prove inspirational enough for many others to follow.”

Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

23. “Happiness is not an individual matter. When you are able to bring relief, or bring back the smile to one person, not only that person profits, but you also profit.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

24. “If we can not smile, we cannot help other people to smile.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

25. “If we do not know how to take care of ourselves and to love ourselves, we cannot take care of the people we love. Loving oneself is the foundation for loving another person.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

26. “In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the practice of spirituality, then you are somehow left in the realm of darkness.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

27. “The gift of love is the gift of the power and capacity to love, and therefore, to give love with full effect is also to receive it. So love can only be kept by being given away, and it can only be given perfectly when it is also received.”

Thomas Merton

28. “What do I mean by loving ourselves properly? I mean first of all, desiring to live, accepting life as a very great gift and a great good, not because of what it gives us, but because of what it enables us to give to others.”

Thomas Merton

29. “For if I am to love truly and freely, I must be able to give something that is truly my own to another. If my heart does not first belong to me, how can I give it to another?”

Thomas Merton

30. “Charity is without fear: having given all that it has, it has nothing left to lose.”

Thomas Merton

31. “As you prepare to go off into the world, remember six rules: Trust yourself, Break some rules, Don’t be afraid to fail, Ignore the naysayers, Work like hell, and Give something back.”

Arnold Schwarzenegger

32. “It is easier to ask of the poor than of the rich.”

Anton Chekhov

33. “O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.”

Chanakya

34. “Love is life’s end, but never ending. Love is life’s wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love’s life’s reward, rewarded in rewarding.”

Herbert Spencer

35. “We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.”

Seneca

36. “If you wished to be loved, love.”

Seneca

37. “It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.”

Seneca

38. “In one equation you can solve all the puzzles of life. It is the equation of giving.”

Amit Ray

39. “If you want to ask one question, ask yourself, what are you giving to the universe and only that will be returned.”

Amit Ray

40. “Every day, bring some flowers to your life. Every day bring some blessings in someone’s life.”

Amit Ray

41. “Sometimes give your services for nothing.”

Hippocrates

42. “It is God’s giving if we laugh or weep.”

Sophocles

43. “You can’t get rich unless you EN-rich.”

Earl Nightingale

44. “To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.”

Earl Nightingale

45. “No man can get rich himself unless he enriches others.”

Earl Nightingale

46. “Prosperity is founded upon a law of mutual exchange. Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper, in turn, himself. Sometimes the return will not come from those you serve, but it must come to you from someplace, for that is the law.”

Earl Nightingale

47. “If we can augment our gift giving by giving more of ourselves to those we love, all the time and in various ways, we will have a good chance of helping them and ourselves live happier, better lives.”

Earl Nightingale

48. “Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.”

Earl Nightingale

49. “In The Science of Getting Rich, W. D. Wattles wrote that we must always give more in service to our customers and to those around us than we are getting in return.”

Earl Nightingale