Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

Best Quotes about Giving

A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses.

Proverb

EARN as much as you can. SAVE as much as you can. INVEST as much as you can. GIVE as much as you can.

Wellesly, Rev. John

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

A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver.

Eleanor Hamilton

Do unto the other feller the way he'd like to do unto you, and do it fast.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

If you continually give, you will continually have.

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

To whom much is given is much required. [Luke 12:48]

Bible

He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

Lao-Tzu

10.

A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of forests. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high.

Macleod, Fiona

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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

12.

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

Macewan, Norman

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You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

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Gifts allow us to demonstrate exactly how little we know about a person. And nothing pisses a person off more than being shoved into the wrong pigeonhole.

Pam Davis

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The nine-tenths prove man's love, but the one-tenth tests man's legal obedience.

Hobbs, Herschel

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It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.

Camus, Albert

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While you have a thing it can be taken from you... but when you give it, you have given it. No robber can take it from you. It is yours then for ever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.

Joyce, James

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God has given to all men free agency and has granted us the privilege to serve Him or serve Him not, to do that which is right or that which is wrong, but he will hold us strictly to an account for the use that we make of this agency.

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There would be no advantage to be gained by sowing a field of wheat if the harvest did not return more than was sown.

Hill, Napoleon

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In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.

Edwards, Flora

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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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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

Gide, Andre

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If I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed.

Williamson, Marianne

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Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

Lewis, C. S.

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The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.

Baltasar Gracian

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What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.

P. D. James

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Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

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For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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You can no more give what you haven't learned than you can come back from a place you've never been.

30.

I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.

Lewis, C. S.

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A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.

Publilius Syrus

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Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

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You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

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Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

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He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

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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

37.

A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.

Jackson, Jesse

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He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

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The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

Ford, Henry

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

Proverb, Chinese

41.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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What you keep to yourself you lose, what you give away, you keep forever.

Munthe, Axel

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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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Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.

Sarton, May

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What we are doing is satisfying the American public. That's our job. I always say we have to give most of the people what they want most of the time. That's what they expect from us.

Paley, William

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You have to sow before you can reap. You have to give before you can get.

Collier, Robert

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

Ruskin, John

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De