Quotes About Giving Someone Your All And Getting Nothing In Return

#1. I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

#2. It is God who enables us to return to life after tragedy-not by eradicating all suffering but by giving us the strength and the courage to heal what we can heal.

Naomi Levy

#3. Gideon brought into my life. The acceptance and the love. The safety. Gideon had given me my freedom back, a life without terror. Giving him vows in return was too simple a repayment for that.

Sylvia Day

#4. Infidelity gives nothing in return for what it takes away. What, then, is it worth? Everything valuable as a compensating power. Not a blade of grass that withers, or the ugliest weed that is flung away to rot and die, but reproduces something.

Thomas Chalmers

#5. TO worship God even for the sake of salvation or any other reward is equally degenerate. Love knows no reward. Give your love unto to God, but do not ask anything in return even from Him through pray.

Swami Vivekananda

#6. Humility can give everything to God. Everything comes from the source, everything returns to the source.

Frederick Lenz

#7. There is a certain even-handed justice in Time; and for what he takes away he gives us something in return. He robs us of elasticity of limb and spirit, and in its place he brings tranquility and repose - the mild autumnal weather of the soul.

Alexander Smith

#8. I didn't mind giving up carnality, jewelry and red meat in return for comradeship and an afterlife.

Margaret Millar

#9. Thank you for coming into my life and giving me joy, thank you for loving me and receiving my love in return. Thank you for the memories I will cherish forever. But most of all, thank you for showing me that there will come a time when I can eventually let you go.

Nicholas Sparks

#10. You don't do kind deeds expecting kindness in return. You don't do kind deeds because you deem the recipient worthy. You do kind deeds because it's who you are, and because you understand the powerful difference your gentle hand makes in this dreary world.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#11. I will absolutely give my [tax] return, but I'm being audited now for two or three years, so I can't do it until the audit is finished, obviously.

Donald Trump

#12. Get money - but stop once in a while to figure what it is costing you to get it. No man gets it without giving something in return. The wise man gives his labor and ability. The fool gives his life.

Bruce Barton

#13. When you love someone, you shouldn't feel that they should love in return. You have to give people freedom.

Frederick Lenz

#14. That is love, to give away everything, to sacrifice everything, without the slightest desire to get anything in return.3

Albert Camus

#15. Giving in the spirit of love, expecting nothing in return is how God gives and so should we, as we are a piece of our creator.

Alice Hocker

#16. Compensation is counterintuitive: The more treasure you give away to those who serve well, the more treasure will return to you. But few people perceive this simple truth. Most try to keep as much as they can for themselves and give little away. That's why their purses refuse to fatten.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi

#17. To receive a present handsomely and in a right spirit, even when you have none to give in return, is to give one in return.

Leigh Hunt

#18. I don't have much but I take all I got and that's what I give, what I get in return is the money I earn and the life I live.

Wiz Khalifa

#19. Love never lives on a one-way street, for it will always come back up the road bigger than how we had sent it down the road.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#20. There can be no return to prosperity while the government (of Ontario) believes that taking money from the people who have earned it and giving it away to the people who haven't, in exchange for their votes and regardless of merit, is the essence of fairness.

Conrad Black

#21. No love that a man has will only give him pleasure in return- he shall also suffer pain because of it, except for love of Allah.

Ibn Taymiyyah

#22. It is the magician's bargain: give up our soul, get power in return. But once our souls, that is, ourselves, have been given up, the power thus conferred will not belong to us. We shall in fact be the slaves and puppets of that to which we have given our souls.

C.S. Lewis

#23. The person giving the advice returns the confidence placed in him with a disinterested eagerness ... and he is usually guided only by his own interest or reputation.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#24. Be very careful. Giving because we think we will get something back will not work. You must be 100 percent willing to give and never experience any return, or it will not work.

John Templeton

#25. The trouble with giving advice is that others want to return the favor.

Sam Ewing

#26. Humankind cannot gain something without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. This is Alchemy's First Law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one, and only, truth.

Hiromu Arakawa

#27. Government sponsors untold waste, criminality and inequality in every sphere of life it touches, giving little or nothing in return.

Doug Casey

#28. Caregivers attract caregivers and live in a community of love. They are energized by their caring, fulfilled, and they love life. Caretakers attract caretakers and live in the company of resentful victims who see themselves as misused and are fatigued from constant giving with no return.

Gary Zukav

#29. That's love, giving everything, sacrificing all without hope of return.

Albert Camus

#30. I work very hard, but when God opens that door for you - when life opens that door for you, I should say - I think it's important to be giving, to return the love back.

Lady Gaga

#31. Love of love and love of life and giving without measure, gives in return a wondrous yearn of a promise yet unseen. Line hand in hand and together we'll stand on the threshold of a dream.

The Moody Blues

#32. To be rich is to give a smile with no expectation of return.

Sri Chinmoy

#33. Kindness is one of the greatest gifts you can bestow upon another. If someone is in need, lend them a helping hand. Do not wait for a thank you. True kindness lies within the act of giving without the expectation of something in return.

Katharine Hepburn

#34. Gratitude takes three forms: a feeling in the heart, an expression in words, and a giving in return.

John Wanamaker

#35. Every action of giving creates an opposite action of receiving and what you receive is always equal to what you've given. Whatever you give out in life, must return to you. It is the physics and the mathematics of the universe.

Rhonda Byrne

#36. If I can break one out of every three return games, I'm going to give myself a shot in a lot of matches.

Andy Roddick

#37. When you give away everything without expecting anything in return, only then will everything belong to you.

Debasish Mridha

#38. My employer uses twenty-six years of my life for every year I get to keep. And what do I get in return for the enormous thing I am giving? What do I get in return for my life?

Michael Ventura

#39. I felt a complete willingness, without any reservations, to give my life, to dedicate my life to service. I tell you, it's a point of no return. After that, you can never go back to completely self-centered living.

Peace Pilgrim

#40. I need us to be indestructible. I can't return to cold and alone. Things are complicated. No doubt. But we'll battle through this. We have to. Giving up is not an option.
"Me and you," I whisper.

Katie McGarry

#41. Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.

Mortimer Adler

#42. In a relationship if you are giving and getting nothing back in return, stop giving so much, and spend time being. Give to yourself, be who you are.

Brenda Shoshanna

#43. Teachings that do not speak of pain have no meaning ... because humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return.

Hiromu Arakawa

#44. Giving in its purest form is done with a heart that says I wish it were more, and I expect nothing in return.

Mary Hunt

#45. When you can give without expecting anything in return, you have mastered the art of living.

Jon Mead

#46. Christians must return to the great story that has its fulfillment in life after death, so we may live and die well in the light of our extraordinary hope that enables us to embrace the ordinary lives God gives us here and now.

Michael Horton

#47. Some say that "there is no such thing as free lunch". And, I ask, why not?
The joy of giving without expecting anything in return from a particular source is simply magic.

Ana Ortega

#48. If you give, expecting something in return, it's not really giving at all.
If you love, expecting something in return, it's not really loving at all.

Donald L. Hicks

#49. But it's easy enough to ignore temptations when you are confident that there is someone waiting at home for your return. However, if that person is no longer a certainty, then it becomes harder and harder to escape even the least temptation which comes along.

Andrew James Pritchard

#50. Allah knows exactly what to give you to help you return to Him. The events in your life are purposeful, appropriate & non-random.

Hamza Yusuf

#51. I suppose "giving without expecting anything in return" isn't something new, but it always pushes your happy button when you do it or see it.

Misha Collins

#52. Stop making a relationship about what you get and start making it about what you give, for what you give is what you'll get in return.

Rob Liano

#53. In East Germany it was very normal for a woman to go out and work even if she had children. A few weeks after giving birth women would return to their normal working life. We never had housewives in East Germany.

Christian Schwochow

#54. Sea and fisherman are not good friends because fisherman takes the good treasures of the sea without giving something good in return!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#55. Self-giving means that we have to understand the nature of giving. When most people give, they give expecting a return on their investment.

Frederick Lenz

#56. I release all criticism. I only give out that which I wish to receive in return. My love and acceptance of others is mirrored to me in every moment.

Louise Hay

#57. When these political action committees give money, they expect something in return other than good government.

Bob Dole

#58. As adults our life is reduced to giving alms to others and receiving them in return. We squander our personalities in orgies of coexistence.

Fernando Pessoa

#59. We return to you, O earth, the things which you have given us willingly and most graciously; with our hearts, hands and minds, in the best way we know how.

Taj Mahal

#60. The universe is a life giving force that is part of us. It flows in harmony through us guiding our every step. It maintain the harmony and flow of life. It gives us the passion and the knowledge we need to live and be inspired by. Yet in return, it is inspired by the human spirit

Sameh Elsayed

#61. A good executive is one who makes people contentedly settle for less than they meant to get, in return for more than they meant to give.

Mignon McLaughlin

#62. You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return.

Carl Jung

#63. The goal [is] not only to earn high returns at the top of the cycle but also to avoid giving them back at the bottom.

Duff McDonald

#64. We must put an end to both economic freeloading and economic exploitation in America. There must be no place for parasites who draw their sustenance from society without giving anything in return.

George Lincoln Rockwell

#65. The more fully we give our energy, the more it returns to us.

Gautama Buddha

#66. In the political language of today, people who want to keep what they have earned are said to be greedy, while those who wish to take their earnings from them and give it to others (who will vote for them in return) show compassion.

Thomas Sowell

#67. Most people I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing in return and I do very well in the bargain.

Francois Fenelon

#68. His return gives England another key to its bow.

Stuart Pearce

#69. I've looted that poor Hab for everything it could give me, and in return it's kept me alive for a year and a half. It's like the Giving Tree.

Andy Weir

#70. You cant gain something, without giving something in return

Hiromu Arakawa

#71. The art of compromise centers on the willingness to give up something in order to get something else in return. Successful artists get more than they give up.

Howard Raiffa

#72. The best gift you can give is a hug: one size fits all and no one ever minds if you return it.

Marge Piercy

#73. The decision to give an indicative date for a return is a mistake. It degrades the process. It degrades human life.

David Trimble

#74. In a democratic scheme, money invested in the promotion of learning gives a tenfold return to the people even as a seed sown in good soil returns a luxuriant crop.

Mahatma Gandhi

#75. God set the standard for giving love that demands nothing in return.

Bill Johnson

#76. Ever since I discovered that my god given male member was going to give me no peace, I decided to give it no rest in return.

Christopher Hitchens

#77. Anyone with special abilities earns a differential return on that flair, which we economists call a rent. Those few with extraordinary P.Q. (Performance Quotient) will not give away such rent to the Ford Foundation or the local bank trust department. They have too high an I.Q. for that.

Paul Samuelson

#78. Usury was seen above all as an assault on Christian charity, on Jesus's injunction to treat the poor as they would treat the Christ himself, giving without expectation of return and allowing the borrower to decide on recompense (Luke 6:34

David Graeber

#79. How are you? How was your flight? He hit the Send button without recognizing that in writing to her he was taking a step back from his life as he knew it and into the unknown future, for one cannot embark upon the new without giving up something in return.

Jill Bialosky

#80. I say to you dear young people: Do not be afraid of Christ! He takes nothing away, and He gives you verything. When we give ourselves to him, we receive a hundredfold in return. Yes, open, open wide the doors to Christ and you will find true life.

Pope Benedict XVI

#81. He would give all of his clothes to his servant, admonishing him NOT to return them until he had completed his day's work.

Victor Hugo

#82. The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.

Seneca The Younger

#83. In the spiritual lore of India there is a story that the Lord whispered only one word in our ears when he sent us into the world: 'Give.' Give freely of your time, your talent, your resources; give without asking for anything in return. This is the secret of living in joy and security.

Eknath Easwaran

#84. You are not a man until you give your love, truly and freely to a child. And you are not a good man until you earn the love, truly and freely, of a child in return.

Gregory David Roberts

#85. A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing, since adventurers come into it as well as go out, and the life in it grows strong, because it takes something from the world, and has something to give in return.

Sarah Orne Jewett

#86. You have given it all to me. To you, Lord, I return it. Everything is yours; do with it what you will. Give me only your love and grace. That is enough for me.

Ignatius Of Loyola

#87. What are friends for? They are the ultimate reflection of yourself. Always surround yourself with people who inspire you and return the favor by giving them the best of you.

Jenny McCarthy

#88. Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#89. In the world take always the position of the giver. Give everything and look for no return. Give love, give help, give service, give any little thing you can, but keep out barter. Make no conditions and none will be imposed on you. Let us give out of our own bounty, just as God gives to us.

Swami Vivekananda

#90. Everything is about "IF", if there was a way to avoid this I will do it. If I could win without giving a chance to the people to return objects in the board it will be awesome - So you get it!

Deyth Banger

#91. The thought of giving up alcohol crossed my mind too, but I was soon reminded of the promise to Ketel One, Grey Goose, and other top-shelf vodkas that I had made in my early twenties. Never turn your back on someone who has asked nothing in return.

Chelsea Handler

#92. We must first give to life if we expect life to give anything in return. This is the divine law.

Harold Klemp

#93. He who gives love will receive a thousandfold in return.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#94. The more you do for others without expectation of return, the more you'll get back from the most unexpected sources.

Brian Tracy

#95. 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.

Robert Collier

#96. To get greater than 100% return on a growth step, give up defensiveness. Defensiveness stifles performance, and destroys relationships.

Henry Cloud

#97. Looking at people and communicating that they can be loved, and that they can love in return, is giving them a tremendous gift. It is also a gift to ourselves. We see that we are one with the fabric of life. This is the power of metta: to teach ourselves and our world this inherent loveliness.

Sharon Salzberg

#98. Inspire others without expecting anything in return. True joy is in giving.

Debasish Mridha

#99. What good being object of charity? Give away, ne'er turn to ask in return, Should there be the wealth treasured in thy heart.

Swami Vivekananda

#100. Love is sharing; greed is hoarding. Greed only wants and never gives, and love knows only giving and never asks for anything in return; it is unconditional sharing.

Osho