Top 100 Quotes About Giving Others
#1. Being an entrepreneur is really exciting for me. Whether it's creating something or just building a company and giving others the opportunity to build a career, I think it's exciting to be at the helm of these types of activities.
Anousheh Ansari
#2. Kindnessis giving others happiness.Compassionis removing others' bitterness.Joyis freeing others from suffering.
Gautama Buddha
#3. We ... heal ourselves by giving others what we most need.
Sherry Turkle
#4. Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in.
Sydney Smith
#5. The courage of leadership is giving others the chance to succeed even though you bear the responsibility for getting things done.
Simon Sinek
#6. Maybe that's what love is. Giving others the power to hurt you and trusting that they'll use it to heal you instead.
C.J. Redwine
#7. You may think you are lacking but there is always someone who is worse off than you. By giving back you are not only giving others a chance, you are demonstrating your appreciation for what you have and the opportunities that were presented to you.
David Mezzapelle
#8. Human rights means protecting another's freedom, seeing that the other person is also like oneself. Human rights is giving others security, letting them live.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#9. Teamwork represents a set of values that encourage behaviors such as listening and constructively responding to points of view expressed by others, giving others the benefit of the doubt, providing support to those who need it, and recognizing the interests and achievements of others.
John Katzenbach
#10. When you give up, you are giving others control of your destiny.
When you choose not to give up, you take control of your destiny.
Alex Haditaghi
#11. Some are less giving, others are more reticent and you actually have to create for them. Others have within them the next step.
Graeme Murphy
#12. Giving others the freedom to be stupid is one of the most important and hardest steps to take in spiritual progress. Conveniently the opportunity to take that step is all around us every day.
Thaddeus Golas
#13. I don't have any personal challenges about throwing away the past. If you're not changing, you're giving others a chance to catch up.
Pete Cashmore
#14. Of Equality
as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself
as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.
Walt Whitman
#15. The cost of college education today is so high that many young people are giving up their dream of going to college, while many others are graduating deeply in debt.
Bernie Sanders
#16. The art of spreading rumors may be compared to the art of pin-making. There is usually some truth, which I call the wire; as this passes from hand to hand, one gives it a polish, another a point, others make and put on the head, and at last the pin is completed.
John Newton
#17. Have you ever learned the beautiful art of letting God take care of you and giving all your thought and strength to pray for others and for the kingdom of God? It will relieve you of a thousand cares.
A.B. Simpson
#18. Every relationship either gives energy to us or withholds energy from us, according to what we give to or withhold from it. And it's not only our behavior toward others, but our very thoughts about them, that builds and/ or destroys relationships.
Marianne Williamson
#19. As you move through life, set aside good ideas and give them to others to encourage and inspire.
Peter J. Daniels
#21. The price of peace is to abandon greed and replace it with giving, so that none will be spiritually injured by having more than they need while others in the world still have less than they need.
Peace Pilgrim
#22. The more we give to others, the more we are increased.
Laozi
#23. You're able to love others, to give to others, and do for others by giving and doing for yourself first.
Wayne Dyer
#24. Smith, you don't realize it's a privilege to practice giving presents to others.' The way he did it was charming; there was nothing glittery and Christmasy about it, but almost sad, and sometimes his gifts were old beat-up things but they had the charm of usefulness and sadness of his giving.
Jack Kerouac
#25. Children are meant to understand compassion and comfort because they have received compassion and comfort - and this should be in the family setting. A family should be a place where comfort is experienced and understood, so that the people are prepared to give comfort to others.
Edith Schaeffer
#26. Cunning is neither the consequence of sense, nor does it give sense. A proof that it is not sense, is that cunning people never imagine that others can see through them. It is the consequence of weakness.
Horace Walpole
#27. Rather than being afraid to ask for help, remember this: When you ask someone to help you, you are actually doing them a tremendous favor by giving them an opportunity to feel needed.
Richard Carlson
#28. When you reach out to those in need, do not be surprised if the essential meaning of something occurs.
Stephen Richards
#29. The more you work, study and develop your ability to contribute more to the lives and well-being of others, the better life you will have in all areas.
Brian Tracy
#30. I enrich myself by telling others to give to me so they can bribe God to get what they want.
Richard Rossi
#31. In your palms, I've placed my life, my secrets. I give you freedom to leave me at any time. I'm not easy to love. No one ever has. All I ask is that you always keep your silence, if not for me, then for the families of the others you'd destroy. (Nykyrian)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#32. Being good to people is always better than giving any sermon. Being kind & caring to others speaks much greater than any words can ever do.
Timothy Pina
#33. FORGIVING is FOR GIVING to others and if it is meant FOR GETTING to ourselves then should it not be termed as FORGETTING ourselves.
Anuj
#34. When giving to others do not linger on thoughts of a giving, what was given, or the one who has received.
Gautama Buddha
#35. Even the humblest mammal's strong sexual, parental, and social instincts give rise to 'do unto others as yourself' and 'love thy neighbor as thyself'.
Charles Darwin
#36. Allow others to give you loving care. Receive without guilt or apologies.
Doreen Virtue
#37. It's through giving that we receive; it's through acts of kindness directed toward others that our immune systems are strengthened and even our serotonin levels increased!
Wayne W. Dyer
#38. Gifts are abilities God gives us to meet the needs of others in Christ's name.
Timothy Keller
#39. Everything starts from prayer. Without asking God for love, we cannot possess love and still less are we able to give it to others. Just as people today are speaking so much about the poor but they do not know or talk to the poor, we too cannot talk so much about prayer and yet not know how to pray.
Mother Teresa
#40. Sow success and hope unto others, and more success and hope becomes what you permanently reap.
Auliq Ice
#41. Every act of true love towards a human being bears witness to and perfects the spiritual fecundity of the family, since it is an act of obedience to the deep inner dynamism of love as self-giving to others.
Pope John Paul II
#42. Most people have a perception that winners are born great. Winners aren't born great. They have become great by the virtue of doing a little extra to achieve greatness. That little extra effort accumulates to one day giving them the winning results when compared to the ordinary efforts of others.
Kevin Abdulrahman
#43. Know in self that in giving a helpful influence, the magnifying of virtues in others and the minimizing of faults is the beginning of wisdom in dealing with others.
Edgar Cayce
#44. Not all writing is political or revolutionary, but the very act of giving yourself permission to write, to speak, to share the truth no matter whether the truth you understand is the truth others want to acknowledge, is brave, powerful, and important.
Dinty W. Moore
#45. There's only one of us here: What we give to others, we give to ourselves. What we withhold from others, we withhold from ourselves. In any moment, when we choose fear instead of love, we deny ourselves the experience of Paradise.
Marianne Williamson
#46. Go out and do something for somebody. Go out and give something to somebody. It will take you away from yourself and make you happy.
Joseph Jefferson
#47. Whereas there are many people in the world who can give life to others, there are but few who can help others to possess it.
Ruth Sawyer
#48. The impossibility of arriving at Truth by giving up your own authority and following the lights of others. Such a path will only lead to an opinion.
Steve Hagen
#49. Christ leads us to go out from ourselves more and more, to give ourselves and to serve others.
Pope Francis
#50. Hanael, the Angel of December, will help us enjoy the balance of giving and receiving in many different ways: working and relaxing, giving our support to others and allowing ourselves to receive it in our own lives, having run with friends and having a quiet time alone to replenish our energy.
Margaret Neylon
#51. 4. Real men are men who have devoted their lives to solving the problem of others and giving a helping hand to those they meet in their journey through life. These are the kind of men that history can never forget.
Bien Sufficient
#52. The law of Love is that you are Love, and that as you give Love to others you teach yourself what you are.
Gerald Jampolsky
#53. In whatever God does in the course of our lives, he gives us, through the experience, some power to help others.
Elisabeth Elliot
#54. Athenians are addicted to innovation. They are daring beyond their judgment they toil on with little opportunity for enjoying, being ever engaged in getting, they were born into the world to take no rest themselves, and to give none to others.
Thucydides
#55. Become a coach, not a king. A coach brings out the best in others, helping them to reach deep down inside and discover their potential. A king only gives commands.
John C. Maxwell
#56. If I am emotionally interdependent, I derive a great sense of worth within myself, but I also recognize the need for love, for giving, and for receiving love from others.
Stephen R. Covey
#57. When you want full color perception, you must give up preferring some colors and hating others, for you can only hate one aspect of a color, not a whole color, it seems, hate being blind, like 'love.
William Tapley Bennett Jr.
#58. Lord, give me a sense of humor so that I may take some happiness from this life and share it with others.
Thomas More
#59. That's what helps me keep playing: the idea of giving something to others. Because personally, I've had my fill.
Chet Faker
#60. Writing jokes for others is like having babies for someone else. It's sad. Like the woman who gives up her baby but needs to be close so she secretly becomes the maid in the household.
Emo Philips
#61. If you establish serenity and happiness inside yourself, you provide the world with a solid base of peace. If you do not give yourself peace, how can you share it with others? If you do not begin your peace work with yourself, where will you go to begin it?
Nhat Hanh
#62. There are those who open their hearts to others ... who never think twice about giving of themselves. They are the wonderful warmhearted people who make all the difference in our lives.
Gilda Radner
#63. No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens
#64. To demand that others should provide you textbook prognoses is like asking a strange woman to give birth to your baby. There are insights that can be born only of your own pain, and they are the most precious.
Janusz Korczak
#65. I came to the conclusion, that if my advice wouldn't be taken by those who needed it most and was stolen by those who could well afford to pay for it, that I would hereafter give advice only to myself and always sell it to others.
William H. McMaster
#66. [G]iving yourself some loving attention is not selfish. It is sensible. If you feel loved and cherished--even if it is only by yourself--then you will have more love to give to others, too. (83)
Penelope Quest
#67. If you find something helpful to give you a hand, allow it to assist you, hands down!
Julie Hebert
#68. Leadership doesn't mean giving marching orders that others must follow blindly. Rather, it means causing others to want to follow. Successful leadership is personal.
Pat Heim
#69. When you give to others to the degree that you sacrifice yourself, you make the other person a thief.
Iyanla Vanzant
#70. Ultimately, by repeatedly making the choice to act in the interest of others, strategic matchers may find themselves developing giver identities, resulting in a gradual drift in style toward the giving end of the reciprocity spectrum.
Adam M. Grant
#72. If you don't love yourself, it's impossible for you to love others. You can't give away what you don't have.
Joyce Meyer
#73. No sinner has the right to say with impunity, 'God you owe me grace.' If grace is owed, it is not grace. The very essence of grace is its voluntary character. God reserves to himself the sovereign, absolute right to give grace to some and withhold that grace from others.
R.C. Sproul
#74. Most people are concerned only with what they can get from the world, but it is what we are able to give to others that determines the quality of our life
Mata Amritanandamayi
#75. Act of giving something to others is an art of flowering your heart.
Vinayak
#76. Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.
William Allen White
#77. Love is donating a chunk of your life to patch up holes in the life of another.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#78. Holding Amy against me, I realize the simple truth is that power isn't control at all - power is strength, and giving that strength to others.
Beth Revis
#79. Coaching sets the pace to get the best out of others
while giving the best of yourself.
David Cottrell
#80. You never help others by allowing them to getaway with giving less than their best efforts.
George Foreman
#81. If you feel depressed you shouldn't go out on the street because it will show on your face and you'll give it to others. Misery is a communicable disease.
Martha Graham
#82. Happiness and self worth can only be found through giving all of yourself to others.
Hank Angus
#83. That is salvation. To give of love inside. To keep love of life, no matter what, and give to others. Generously.
Sylvia Plath
#84. Focusing intently on Christ naturally results in a lifestyle of increasingly greater selflessness. And it has another benefit. Gazing on Christ gives us greater ability to look past life's trials and remain calm in the midst of what others would call chaos.
Charles R. Swindoll
#85. This experience has also humbled me by giving me a true understanding of what millions of others face each day in their own fight against cancer.
Farrah Fawcett
#86. Not only does silence give us a chance to understand ourselves better, to get a truer and more balanced perspective on our own lives in relation to the lives of others: silence makes us whole if we let it. Silence helps draw together the scattered and dissipated energies of a fragmented existence.
Thomas Merton
#87. A 'caring' judgment is still a judgment. And any form of judgment creates blocks and stagnation.
Alaric Hutchinson
#88. When I am at Rome I fast as the Romans do; when I am at Milan I do not fast. So likewise you, whatever church you come to, observe the custom of the place, if you would neither give offence to others, nor take offence from them.
Ambrose
#90. Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others. Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving. So learn to love and give, and not to expect anything from others.
Meher Baba
#91. The person who has the motivational gift of giving has a tremendous opportunity to be a blessing to others in the body of Christ, to encourage others in the proper use of their finances, and to make the extension of the Gospel possible.
Charles Stanley
#92. When you give others a new chance, a new chance is really being given to you.
Bryant McGill
#93. Judging is giving too much value on the surface and missing the value beneath
Dee Dee Artner
#94. Look at Goethe, at Lamartine and at many others! To depict feelings on this high plane, you must give up the process of minute and insignificant observation which is the bane of the artists of to-day.
Paul Bourget
#95. The image of God infused in us never sees the light of day in the service of self, but it becomes the light of day in the service of others.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#96. Give the respect you want to receive; embody the grace you hope to encounter; and help others with no expectations whatsoever.
Cory Booker
#97. Others can give you a name or a number, but they can never tell you who you really are. That is something you yourself can only discover from within.
Thomas Merton
#98. The essence of charity ... was not deciding what others needed and giving it to them, but giving them what they wanted.
Jane Smiley
#99. Generosity has little to do with giving gifts, and everything to do with giving space to others to be who they are.
Patti Digh
#100. I believe that love expands. As you give love out, it's received and reciprocated and it grows. That's the beauty of it.
Hill Harper