Motivational Quotes

Giving

Give a lot, expect a lot, and if you don't get it, prune.

- Peters, Thomas J.

Best Quotes about Giving

Why is it no one ever sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get one perfect rose.

Parker, Dorothy

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

Graham, Billy

Before he left, Aunt William pressed a sovereign into his hand guiltily, as if it were conscience money. He, on his side, took it as though it were a doctor's fee, and both ignored the transaction.

Leverson, Ada

Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting.

Meltzer, Bernard

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.

Gibbs, Philip

There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.

Euripides

Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

Trust not the horse, O Trojans. Be it what it may, I fear the Grecians even when they offer gifts.

Virgil

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The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.

Tracy, Brian

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Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

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Giving presents is a talent; to know what a person wants, to know when and how to get it, to give it lovingly and well. Unless a character possesses this talent there is no moment more annihilating to ease than that in which a present is received and given.

Glenconner, Pamela

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Give little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

Ruskin, John

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For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

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Give light and people will find their own way.

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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.

Seneca

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I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.

Addison, Joseph

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There never was a person who did anything worth doing, who did not receive more than he gave.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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All that this world knows of living lies in giving -- and more giving; He that keeps, be sure he loses -Friendship grows by what it uses.

Maclaren, Alexander

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He that loveth, flieth, runneth, and rejoiceth. He is free, and cannot be held in. He giveth all for all, and hath all in all, because he resteth in one highest above all things, from whom all that is good flows and proceeds.

Kempis, Thomas

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He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

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You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

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You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.

Andrus, Ethel Percy

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If you continually give, you will continually have.

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When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, while their present-giving instincts often remain in the undeveloped condition of their earlier days. Something showy and not-too-expensive in a shop is their only conception of the ideal gift.

Munro, Hector Hugh

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The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.

Seneca

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He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

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You must give to get, You must sow the seed, before you can reap the harvest.

Reed, Scott

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we make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

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The trick is to realize that after giving your best, there's nothing more to give.

Anderson, Sparky

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The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of oneself to others.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

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The real secret of happiness is not what you have or what you receive; it's what you share

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I have always noticed that a man who gives the most for the money, gets the most business.

Young, Vash

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Sow much, reap much; sow little, reap little.

Proverb, Chinese

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It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be.

Baldwin, James

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Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

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Giving half answers won't make the conversation half as long.

Johnson, Dave

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The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them.

Mckeun, Rod

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We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

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No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.

Angelis, Barbara De

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He who gives while he lives, get to know where it goes.

Ross, Percy

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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

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It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving.

Braunstein, Richard