Albert Einstein:

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

Anne Frank:

No one has ever become poor by giving.

Barbara Bush:

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.

Charles Dickens:

Charity begins at home and justice begins next door.

Elbert Hubbard:

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning:

God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers,
And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face,
A gauntlet with a gift in it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.

George H. W. Bush:

I have spoken of a thousand points of light, of all the community organizations that are spread like stars throughout the Nation, doing good.

John D. Rockefeller Jr.:

Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege.

Maimonides:

Anticipate charity by preventing poverty; assist the reduced fellow man, either by a considerable gift or a sum of money or by teaching him a trade or by putting him in the way of business so that he may earn an honest livelihood and not be forced to the dreadful alternative of holding out his hand for charity. This is the highest step and summit of charity's golden ladder.

Maya Angelou:

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

Pamela Glenconner:

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.

Peyton Conway March:

There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:

We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:

We wish to be self-sustained. We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.

Susan Sarandon :

So I would hope they would develop some kind of habit that involves understanding that their life is so full they can afford to give in all kinds of ways to other people. I consider that to be baseline spirituality.

Thornton Wilder:

Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.

from "The Matchmaker"

Winston Churchill:

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