Self Giving Quotes

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Khalil Gibran

Inspirational, Motivational, Kindness

Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.34, Lulu.com

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For in self-giving, if anywhere, we touch a rhythm not only of all creation but of all being.

C. S. Lewis

Self, Giving, Creation

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.112, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self - giving is a personal power - releasing factor.

Norman Vincent Peale

Inspirational, Courage, Power

Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “The Positive Principle Today”, p.168, Simon and Schuster

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It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.

Albert Einstein

Motivational, Karma, Integrity

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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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Sacrifice does not mean that, by giving, we lose something. We sacrifice our limited self to our highest and largest Self, and at that time we immediately become the largest and the highest Self.

Sri Chinmoy

Mean, Sacrifice, Self

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If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

Bob Hope

Life, Happiness, Success

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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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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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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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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

Fulton J. Sheen

Love, Recovery, Self

Fulton J. Sheen (2003). “Fulton Sheen's Wartime Prayer Book”, p.73, Sophia Institute Press

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No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

Charles Dickens

Love, Inspirational, Family

"Our Mutual Friend". Book by harles Dickens, 1865.

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Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love.

Mahatma Gandhi

Love, Forgiveness, Positive Thinking

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The more you love, the more you suffer.

Vincent Van Gogh

Suffering, How To Love, Love You More

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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

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The more you love, the more you crave.

Nicole Kidman

How To Love, Love You More, Love And Flower

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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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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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No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

Woodrow Wilson

Spiritual, Men, Giving

Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1981). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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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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Love is the key to the mystery. Love by its very nature is not selfish, but generous. It seeks not its own, but the good of others. The measure of love is not the pleasure it gives-that is the way the world judges it-but the joy and peace it can purchase for others.

Fulton J. Sheen

Selfish, Love Is, Keys

Fulton J. Sheen (2017). “Go to Heaven: A Spiritual Road Map to Eternity”, p.219, Ignatius Press

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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.

Robert Kennedy

Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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

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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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Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Laozi

Love, Inspirational, Life

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You cannot do a kindness too soon.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Karma, Thankful, Appreciation

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