Henry Drummond Quotes

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

There's a great joy in my giving. It's thrilling. It's exhilarating. It's important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy.

We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

It's only the giving that makes you what you are.

Be generous and you can be the best person who ever lived.

He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.

I want my music to feel like I'm giving something to someone else and not that I'm expecting something back.

There's no greater source of happiness than giving yourself to other people.

Giving is the most self-satisfying thing you can ever do.

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.

The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.

The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: the more pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kind actions make us happy, and in such joy we find communion with the great heart of Jesus.

Those who give of themselves rarely regret it.

You've got to give away what you love.

The joy of giving is indeed a pleasure, especially when you get rid of something you don't want.

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 wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

If you want to be happy, make others happy!

Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.