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

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

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

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

Ross, Percy

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

Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.

Rohn, Jim

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

Camus, Albert

If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach.

Margaret Cho

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

You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Baughan, R.J.

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I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.

Bunyan, John

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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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When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.

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

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

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Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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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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The big print giveth, and the fine print taketh away.

Sheen, Fulton John

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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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If you continually give, you will continually have.

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It is like the seed put in the soil -- the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Jackson, Jesse

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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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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

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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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Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

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

Eleanor Hamilton

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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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I wonder if it isn't just cowardice instead of generosity that makes us give tips.

Rogers, Will

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

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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]

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The more we give of anything, the more we shall get back.

Speare, Grace

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

Gibbs, Philip

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He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

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It is more blessed to give than to receive. [Acts 20:35]

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

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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The Liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself. [Proverbs 11.25]

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