Peter Drucker Quotes

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

In so doing, use him as though you loved him.

It is the service we are not obliged to give that people value most.

I don't see that anyone owes me anything for my service. I don't feel any sense of entitlement.

We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.

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

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It's very irritating if you have a lot of money. You'd like to think you could write a check: 'I'll buy a million dollars' worth of love.' But it doesn't work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

True generosity is an offering; given freely and out of pure love. No strings attached. No expectations. Time and love are the most valuable possession you can share.

If I want to be a loving, generous, giving person, I'm not going to test the waters. I'm simply going to be a loving, generous, giving person.

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

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.

You can't beg from people what they're not willing to give you.

Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.

When I was growing up, I always knew that if I ever got anything, I was going to give back as much as I can. I learned that all you have to be willing to do is give your time.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

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.

When people do things for you, it's because they want to - because you, in some way, give them something meaningful that makes them want to please you, not because anyone owes you anything.

If you are good to this one and that one, this one and that one will say that you are good. If you are good to everyone, no one will say that you are good.

My mother always wanted to give back.

You get everything you could have ever wished for if you're willing to give that eternal bliss away to somebody else, to give it back.

There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.