I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: ''What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.''
~ Joseph Addison

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel

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

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

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.
~ Barbara De Angelis

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
~ Arthur Ashe

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.
~ James Baldwin

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.
~ Mary Bateson

Nature does not give to those who will not spend...
~ R.J. Baughan

There never was a person who did anything worth doing, who did not receive more than he gave.
~ Henry Ward Beecher

Getters don't get -- givers get.
~ Eugene Benge

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
~ Walter Benjamin

Give and it shall be given unto you: good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over... [Luke 6:38]
~ Bible

Give, and it shall be given to you. For whatever measure you deal out to others, it will be dealt to you in return.
~ Bible

It is more blessed to give than to receive. [Acts 20:35]
~ Bible

Let each one do just as he has purposed in his heart; not grudgingly or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver. [2 Corinthians 9:7]
~ Bible

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

The Liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself. [Proverbs 11.25]
~ Bible

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

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