Quotes On Giving & Donation

Bread for myself is a material question.  Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.
- Nicholas Berdyaev

Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
- Lowell

For it is in giving that we receive.
- Francis of Assisi

He who gives when he is asked has waited too long.
- Sunshine Magazine

I expect to pass through life but once.  If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
- William Penn

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

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little – do what you can.
- Sydney Smith

Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you.
- Mother Teresa

No one has ever become poor by giving.
- Anne Frank

Nobody can do everything, but everyone can do something.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.
- Edmund Burke

Past the seeker as he prayed came the crippled and the beggar and the beaten.  And seeing them… he cried, “Great God, how is it that a loving creator can see such things and yet do nothing about them?”  God said, “I did do something.  I made you.”

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

The deed is everything, the glory naught.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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