Giving To Others Quotes

• When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.

  Maya Angelou

  Thanksgiving, Thankful, Gratitude

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.11, Bantam

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• The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Encouragement, Freedom, Business

  "The Power of Purpose: Find Meaning, Live Longer, Better". Book by Richard Leider, p. 35., 2010.

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• Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

  Booker T. Washington

  Happiness, Helping Others, Compassion

  Booker T. Washington (2016). “Up from Slavery”, p.41, Open Road Media

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• Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

  Norman MacEwen

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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  We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

  Winston Churchill

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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  What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

  Albert Pike

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Albert Pike (1899). “Ex Corde Locutiones...: Words from the Heart Spoken of His Dead Brethren...”

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  What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Charity isn't about pity, it is about love.

  Mother Teresa

  Helping Others, Charity, Giving Help

  Mother Teresa (1995). “A Simple Path-Open Market”

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• Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.

  John Wesley

  Life, Motivational, Christmas

  'Rule of Conduct' in 'Letters' (1915)

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• Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.

  Barbara Bush

  Memorable, Generosity, Giving

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• Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

  Muhammad Ali

  Basketball, Kindness, Fighting

  Twitter post from May 26, 2010

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• You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

  John Bunyan

  Motivational, Success, Perseverance

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• The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.

  Nelson Henderson

  Inspirational, Life, Graduation

  "Under Whose Shade". Book by Wesley Henderson, 1982.

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• I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  Twitter post from Mar 03, 2017

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  I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

  Henry Ford

  Life, Money, Inspiration

  Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.130, 谷月社

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• Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

  William James

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• What are you doing for others?

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Helping Others, Volunteer

  Jim Haskins, James Haskins, Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1992). “I have a dream: the life and words of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Millbrook Pr

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• Do all the good you can, by all the means you can.

  John Wesley

  Christian, Kindness, Mean

  'Rule of Conduct' in 'Letters' (1915)

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• Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

  Marianne Williamson

  Life, Confidence, Fear

  A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

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• It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

  Robert Kennedy

  Change, Hope, Courage

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

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• Give, but give until it hurts.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Hurt

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• To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Life, Happiness, Depression

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