Top 100 Self Giving Quotes
#1. We must bring light to as many people as possible. Who has time to indulge in self-pity or guilt? In advanced self-giving you have no time for this. You just push these emotions out.
Frederick Lenz
#3. The past is dead except for the life you give it
Myles Munroe
#4. There is giving, and there is knowingness. Some have generosity and compassion but no true knowledge. Some have knowledge but no self-sacrifice. When both are present, that person is blessed and prosperous. Such a being is truly incomparable.
Rumi
#5. A self-help guru would call this attitude "bending in the wind," but I just call it "giving up.
Gary Reilly
#6. Not one But twenty-four self-giving-hours Every day I have For my use.
Sri Chinmoy
#7. What subsists to-day by violence continues to-morrow by acquiescence and is perpetuated by tradition; till at last the hoary abuse shakes the gray hairs of antiquity at us, and gives it-self out as the wisdom of ages.
Edward Everett
#8. Sometimes we give up a dream to play a larger role in someone else's dream.
Robert Breault
#9. Jesus is much more concerned about shaking your foundations, giving you an utterly alternative self image, world image, and God image, and thus reframing your entire reality. Mere inspiration can never do this.
Richard Rohr
#10. All we have to do is to receive what we are given ... We are given the naturalness to love someone, to be calm in crisis, to ignore self-defeating suggestions, to be pleasant, forgiving, tender, helpful, unworried, brave, energetic.
Vernon Howard
#11. If youth is the period of hero-worship, so also is it true that hero-worship, more than anything else, perhaps, gives one the sense of youth. To admire, to expand one's self, to forget the rut, to have a sense of newness and life and hope, is to feel young at any time of life.
Charles Horton Cooley
#12. Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.
Iris Murdoch
#13. For in self-giving, if anywhere, we touch a rhythm not only of all creation but of all being.
C.S. Lewis
#14. The soul is kissed by God in its innermost regions. With interior yearning, grace and blessing are bestowed. It is a yearning to take on God's gentle yoke, It is a yearning to give one's self to God's Way.
Hildegard Of Bingen
#16. Strengthen the rural areas and you will find less people migrating to urban areas. You give them opportunity, self respect & self confidence, they will never go to an urban slum.
Bunker Roy
#18. When you birth a child, it's like a bloody giving of self to the creation of a life.
Ezra Miller
#19. Self-pity is essentially humorless, devoid of that lightness of touch which gives understanding of life.
Anthony Powell
#20. GIVING - Applied tithing is so rewarding. When you give away your time, talent, and treasures you create a huge shift in your prosperity consciousness. So start where you are as you reach for where it is you want to be.
Lisa Washington
#21. It turns out that the Bible is right - "It is better to give than to receive" (Acts 20:35). People generally do find greater joy in giving freely to others than they do in rampant self-indulgence.
Francis Chan
#22. When you promise yourself something, make a commitment, you can't give up. Because, when you're in the gym, you have to fulfill the promise you made to yourself. The people who can self motivate - in any field - are usually the ones who win. Regardless of talent.
Tom Platz
#24. Poetry is a solitary process. One does not write poetry for the masses. Poetry is a self-involved, lofty pursuit. Songs are for the people. When I'm writing a song, I imagine performing it. I imagine giving it. It's a different aspect of communication. It's for the people.
Patti Smith
#25. We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along.
Mignon McLaughlin
#26. I believe becoming healthy and working out saved my life by giving me the confidence and self worth to achieve my goals.
Kim Lyons
#27. Let a man neither give himself over to pleasures ... nor yet let him give himself over to self-mortification ... To the exclusion of both these extremes, the Truth-Finder has discovered a middle course.
Gautama Buddha
#29. Love is the ultimate giving, an expression of one's best self.
Bel Kaufman
#30. Giving a voice to your feelings is a necessary personal freedom.
Deborah Sandella
#31. Instead of giving God His rightful place at the center of our lives, we have substituted the "god" of Self. Only Christ can change our hearts - and through us begin to change our world.
Billy Graham
#32. You give Europeans once again 'all benefits that they can eat', you make them work shorter hours, and you give more money, and they'd be back in a self-congratulatory, self-righteous mode; damned be the rest of the world.
Andre Vltchek
#33. The voice of the Constitution is the inescapably solemn self-consciousness of the people giving the law unto themselves.
E.L. Doctorow
#34. The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self- dependence must give each individual the right to choose his own surroundings.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#35. Achieving the good life is more a matter of being than of doing or giving. It calls for intense self-scrutiny, a relentless honesty about one's motives, and a persistent feeling that we are no better - and perhaps worse - than those we are trying to help.
Sydney J. Harris
#36. The soul who does not live to give the best, deny the sacred self of full strength.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#37. Only the soul that with an overwhelming impulse and a perfect trust gives itself up forever to the life of other men, finds the delight and peace which such complete self-surrender has to give.
Phillips Brooks
#38. Because you aren't just someone I loved back then. You were my best friend, my best self, and I can't imagine giving that up again." He hesitated searching for the right words. "You might not understand, but I gave you the best of me, and after you left, nothing was ever the same.
Nicholas Sparks
#39. We loosely talk of Self-realization, for lack of a better term. But how can one realize that which alone is real? All we need to do is to give up our habit of regarding as real that which is unreal. All religious practices are meant solely to help us do this.
Ramana Maharshi
#40. One's own flowers and some of one's own vegetables make acceptable, free, self-congratulatory gifts when visiting friends, though giving zucchini - or leaving it on the doorstep, ringing the bell, and running - is a social faux pas.
Barbara Holland
#41. Motherhood implies from the beginning a special openness to the new person: and this is precisely the woman's 'part'. In this openness, in conceiving and giving birth to a child, the woman 'discovers herself through a sincere gift of self'.
Pope John Paul II
#42. The process of setting a goal, learning the necessary steps to achieve it, and giving it your best until you've mastered it will generate high self-esteem and pride. Those are feelings associated with joy.
Jude Bijou
#43. Giving style to one's character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason and even weakness delights the eye.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#44. When you fix something with your hands it gives you a sense of accomplishment and a sense of self worth.
Jay Leno
#45. There is no more self-contradictory concept than that of idle thoughts. What gives rise to the perception of a whole world can hardly be called idle. Every thought we have either contributes to truth or to illusion.
Gautama Buddha
#46. What the ego (the False Self) hates and fears more than anything else is change. It will think up a thousand other things to be concerned about or be moralistic about - anything rather than giving up "who I think I am" and "who I need to be to look good.
Richard Rohr
#47. There was a long silence. Magnus broke it. "I have to hand it to you," he said. "I never thought Jace and Clary would be topped by anyone else in terms of insane, self-destructive decisions, but you all are giving them a run for their money.
Cassandra Clare
#48. Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.
Brian Tracy
#49. Look at you and your big, bad self. Rawr." "You haven't see anything yet," I growled. "I'm giving you five seconds to back the hell off her. One. Four. Fi -
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#50. When you reach out to those in need, do not be surprised if the essential meaning of something occurs.
Stephen Richards
#51. I came to office with one deliberate intent: to change Britain from a dependent to a self-reliant society
from a give-it-to-me, to a do-it-yourself nation. A get-up-and-go, instead of a sit-back-and-wait-for-it Britain.
Margaret Thatcher
#52. The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die - although it is the tragic fate of most individuals to die before they are born.
Erich Fromm
#53. The breeding we give young people is ordinarily but an additional self-love, by which we make them have a better opinion of themselves.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#54. Know your own Self. Honor your own Self. Find and be who you really are, at the deepest level of your own being. Be present in your own presence. Give yourself the gift of your own Self.
Nirmalananda
#55. The more one gives one's self in creative union with another, the more one becomes one's self.
Richard Rohr
#56. And in self-giving we become really happy. Real humility is the expansion of our consciousness and our service.
Sri Chinmoy
#57. Self-acceptance begets acceptance from others, which begets even deeper, more genuine self-acceptance. It can be done. But no one is going to bestow it on you. It is a gift only you can give yourself.
Camryn Manheim
#58. Christians have their attitude toward God changed from one of duty to free, loving self-giving because of what Jesus did for us on the cross.
Timothy J. Keller
#59. The people who ultimately reach their goals are those who don't give up. Instead of wallowing in self-pity or frustration - or throwing in the towel altogether - they explore what didn't work and course-correct.
Lauren Mackler
#60. You give to yourself by giving of yourself.
Matthew Kahn
#61. Love actually is a great act of the will. It's when I say, "I desire your good, not for my sake but for yours". To love is to break out of the black hole of the ego and say, "My life is about you".
Bishop Robert Barron
#62. See, don't just look. Your partner is so much more than their appearance. It's how kind their heart is, how lovely they smile, how much they care and have compassion, how generous and giving they are which becomes much more attractive.
Suzan Battah
#63. There is no second, or higher self to search for. You are the highest self, only give up the false ideas you have about your self.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#64. Mr. and Mrs. Boffin sat staring at mid-air, and Mrs. Wilfer sat silently giving them to understand that every breath she drew required to be drawn with a self-denial rarely paralleled in history.
Charles Dickens
#65. Oh, I long to prove myself by writing! The best seems to die in me when I give it up. It is the self I love
not this efficient, philanthropic self.
Ruth Benedict
#66. There is a knowingness that is as much a part of us as flesh and blood and bones. It's intuition, the deepest natural knowing ... Intuition is the voice within forever pressing us to stretch ourselves, to take risks, to keep loving and giving birth to a new self, regardless of circumstances.
Susan L. Taylor
#67. Giving him a wry look, Shiloh said, "I think you're forcing me to look at myself, what I want, who I am."
"Good relationships always do that for both people, Darlin'. It's just a natural progression between them. It can bring out our self-awareness. It's not easy. But it's rewarding.
Lindsay McKenna
#68. Leonard Cohen can give you "Leonard Cohen" - the self-deprecating wit, the slow, considered speech, the perfectly-honed anecdote - Tom Waits is far more comfortable giving a journalist "Tom Waits" the character, whose conversation is really a series of strange tales, learned or ad-libbed.
Sylvie Simmons
#69. The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.
Calvin Coolidge
#70. 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
#71. The joy of a self-giving life
Can neither be measured
Nor be expounded.
Sri Chinmoy
#72. There are no mirrors of any kind in here. If there were, I'd want to smash them, but I wouldn't. Instead, I'd probably just stare at them, giving myself negative affirmations.
Rasmenia Massoud
#74. Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.
Thomas S. Monson
#75. Our humanity comes to its fullest bloom in giving. We become beautiful people when we give whatever we can give: a smile, a handshake, a kiss, an embrace, a word of love, a present, a part of our life ... all of our life.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#76. First and foremost, if we maintain healthy emotional boundaries and direct love and kindness inwards, we are taking care of ourselves and secondly we are giving a subliminal message to others about how we wish to be treated. People tend to subconsciously treat us how we treat ourselves.
Christopher Dines
#77. When you trust and act on your intuition, you increase your self-esteem, build trust in yourself and experience a profound sense of security that no relationship or amount of money will ever give you.
Cheryl Richardson
#78. 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
#79. Giving authority to others to control your lower-self impulses only serves to keep you in the lower self!
Heidi DuPree
#80. Jesus faithfully and courageously represented the nonviolent and loving heart of God. Jesus and his way of nonviolent, self-giving love, the text suggests, will earn the trust of all humanity. We will ultimately migrate, in other words, toward the way of Jesus.
Brian D. McLaren
#81. To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.
Will Durant
#82. What I would like you always to do is what I try humbly to do myself, that is, never to say or to do anything which would wound the feelings or the self-respect of any human being, and to give special consideration to all who are in any way repressed.
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
#83. Take an hour every day at dawn and give it to your Self. Meet your Self there, in the holy moment. Then go about your day. You will be a different person.
Neale Donald Walsch
#84. Giving encouragement to others is a most welcome gift, for the results of it are lifted spirits, increased self-worth, and a hopeful future.
Florence Littauer
#85. My opinion is that we must lend ourselves to others and give ourselves only to ourselves. If my will happened to be prone to mortgage and attach itself, I would not last: I am too tender, both by nature and by practice.
Michel De Montaigne
#86. Relationships are give-and-take, and when you're a tennis player, you're certainly not giving. You have to be self-absorbed. It has to be about you.
Chris Evert
#87. I like storytelling. We all have an active thing that we do that gives us self-esteem, that makes us proud; it's necessary. I have to tell stories because that's the way the wiring went in.
Paul Zindel
#88. When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don't back down and don't give up - then you're going to mystify a lot of folks.
Bob Dylan
#89. Never settle on a life you don't want when God is trying to give you a better life.
Shannon L. Alder
#90. The women that I met were exceptional, extraordinary - tremendous purity, tremendous gentleness, self-giving and power.
Frederick Lenz
#91. I do not need to be a selfless child, or a woman giving to the point of self-annihilation.
Anais Nin
#92. When you give yourself away you find that a new and more real self has somehow been given to you.
Peter Kreeft
#93. The difference between self love and being in love with yourself is that one results in giving and the other in taking.
Jeffrey Fry
#94. Being giving is a big quality. Being too giving is a big mistake!
Rossana Condoleo
#95. I do not want to give my power, my self-esteem, or my autonomy, to any person, place, or thing outside myself. [ ... ] The only thing that matters is how I feel about myself, my personal integrity, and my relationship with my Creator.
Ashley Judd
#96. 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
#97. Holiness consists in doing God's will joyfully. Faithfulness makes saints. The spiritual life is a union with Jesus: the divine and the human giving themselves to each other. The only thing Jesus asks of us is to give ourselves to him, in total poverty and total self-forgetfulness.
Mother Teresa
#99. There is nothing Madison Avenue can give us that will make us more beautiful women. We are beautiful because God created us that way.
Marianne Williamson
#100. Not to be attached to something is to be aware of its absolute value. Everything you do should be based on such an awareness, and not on material or self-centered ideas of value.
Shunryu Suzuki
