The trick is to realize that after giving your best, there's nothing more to give.

The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.

No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.

It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be.

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Nature does not give to those who will not spend...

Getters don't get -- givers get.

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

One man gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want. [Proverbs 11-24]

It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving.

He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of oneself to others.

You have to sow before you can reap. You have to give before you can get.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.

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

Giving presents is a talent; to know what a person wants, to know when and how to get it, to give it lovingly and well. Unless a character possesses this talent there is no moment more annihilating to ease than that in which a present is received and given.

The nine-tenths prove man's love, but the one-tenth tests man's legal obedience.

To give is to receive...

Giving half answers won't make the conversation half as long.

He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

Before he left, Aunt William pressed a sovereign into his hand guiltily, as if it were conscience money. He, on his side, took it as though it were a doctor's fee, and both ignored the transaction.

A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of forests. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high.

We must give more in order to get more, It is the generous giving of ourselves that produce the generous harvest.

In Giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.

The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them.

It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.

What you keep to yourself you lose, what you give away, you keep forever.

Plant a kernel of wheat and you reap a pint; plant a pint and you reap a bushel. Always the law works to give you back more than you give.

What we are doing is satisfying the American public. That's our job. I always say we have to give most of the people what they want most of the time. That's what they expect from us.

Sow much, reap much; sow little, reap little.

He who gives while he lives, get to know where it goes.

To get, give.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.

Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

The Dead Sea is the dead sea, because it continually receives and never gives.

You can no more give what you haven't learned than you can come back from a place you've never been.

Trust not the horse, O Trojans. Be it what it may, I fear the Grecians even when they offer gifts.

EARN as much as you can. SAVE as much as you can. INVEST as much as you can. GIVE as much as you can.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.