A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver.

—Eleanor Hamilton

More quotations tagged with “giving”

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

—Charles Dudley Warner

The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.

—Baltasar Gracián

You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others—something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.

—Albert Schweitzer

If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.

—Antonio Porchia

giving wealth interdependence exchange

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

—Mother Teresa

hunger giving generosity charity

History

11 Jul 2015 Added