Quotes on Giving Back

Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.

I think," Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, "that when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live. I can give back to the world all that I didn't do. All that I might have been and couldn't be. All the choices I didn't make. All the things I lost and spent and wasted. I can give them back to the world. To the lives that haven't been lived yet. That will be my gift back to the world that gave me the life I did live, the love I loved, the breath I breathed.

...in a time lacking in truth and certainty and filled with anguish and despair, no woman should be shamefaced in attempting to give back to the world, through her work, a portion of its lost heart.

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

In all of my years of service to my Lord, I have discovered a truth that has never failed and has never been compromised. That truth is that it is beyond the realm of possibilities that one has the ability to out-give God. Even if I give the whole of my worth to Him, He will find a way to give back to me much more than I gave.

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

It takes a noble man to plant a seed for a tree that will someday give shade to people he may never meet.

Staunch & faithful little lovers that they are, they give back a hundred fold every sign of love one ever gives them — & it mitigates the pang of losing them to know how very happy a little affection has made them .

I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Give thanks. Appreciate what you DO have ... the more we give thanks, the more we receive to be thankful for. Gratitude is the gift that always gives back.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

Even if I give the whole of my worth to Him, He will find a way to give back to me much more than I gave.

For whatever reason, God has blessed me with the ability, put me in a position to make these leaps and bounds. I'm fulfilling my part of the bargain, which is to give back and be a positive influence on others.

One of the first things my father taught me was that the library was made for and available to me. It's a place where you not only learn from books but you learn responsibility - how to borrow, take care of, and give back.

Give back to the world at least what you've received.

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

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

If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

But there will come a time and a place to give back, and each individual will recognize that time and place.