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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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

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

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

Charles Dudley Warner

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

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

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

Hobbs, Herschel

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

Canfield, Jack

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

Collier, Robert

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

Proverb, Chinese

13.

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Baughan, R.J.

16.

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

Lao-Tzu

18.

Give light and people will find their own way.

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

Macewan, Norman

21.

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

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

Eleanor Hamilton

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

Euripides

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

Proverb

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

Speare, Grace

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

Lewis, C. S.

34.

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

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes