Zora Neale Hurston Quotes

It costs you something to do good!

I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

I try to be a good person every day. If you didn't like me, there would be something wrong with you, because I really go out and work as hard as I can to help people. I put myself last - always. I'm a giver all the way.

Caregiving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached.

If you really want to receive joy and happiness, then serve others with all your heart. Lift their burden, and your own burden will be lighter.

The best way to do ourselves good is to be doing good to others; the best way to gather is to scatter.

I have found that the only thing that does bring you happiness is doing something good for somebody who is incapable of doing it for themselves.

We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.

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.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

Compassion comes from a choice and not the liberal definition of a choice - the choice to say I can do with a little less so my brother can have a little more.

The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.

When I give I give myself.

One who has no love in his heart will try to possess everything for himself. One who has love in his heart is ready to sacrifice everything, including his own body, for the benefit of others.

Love is giving and it has nothing to do with what you receive.

Love is forgiving and Love is for giving.

True love is spelled G-I-V-E. It is not based on what you can get, but rooted in what you can give to the other person.

If you love people enough, they will give you everything.

There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.

For the will and not the gift makes the giver.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

A saint is a person who gives of themself without asking for anything in return. That's how simple it is to be a saint. Try it! Try being a saint.