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

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

Collier, Robert

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Ruskin, John

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

Lao-Tzu

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

P. D. James

Give and it shall be given unto you: good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over... [Luke 6:38]

Bible

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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

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Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

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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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It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Munthe, Axel

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The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

Charles Dudley Warner

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Nature does not give to those who will not spend...

Baughan, R.J.

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Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Euripides

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

Graham, Billy

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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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When you're nice to people, they want to be nice back to you.

Canfield, Jack

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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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We must give more in order to get more, It is the generous giving of ourselves that produce the generous harvest.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Let each one do just as he has purposed in his heart; not grudgingly or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver. [2 Corinthians 9:7]

Bible

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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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You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

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He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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

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

Johnson, Dave

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Reed, Scott

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

Proverb

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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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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

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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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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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I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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