Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Anderson, Sparky

Best Quotes about Giving

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.

Mother Teresa

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

Anderson, Sparky

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

Charles Dudley Warner

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

Gide, Andre

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

Young, Vash

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

Ruskin, John

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Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

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

Braunstein, Richard

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If you continually give, you will continually have.

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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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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Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

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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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Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Canfield, Jack

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

Reed, Scott

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

Baughan, R.J.

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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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Give light and people will find their own way.

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The Dead Sea is the dead sea, because it continually receives and never gives.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Munthe, Axel

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You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.

Albert Schweitzer

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There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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