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

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

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

Ross, Percy

Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

Trust not the horse, O Trojans. Be it what it may, I fear the Grecians even when they offer gifts.

Virgil

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

Williamson, Marianne

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

Bunyan, John

13.

Let me be a little kinder, Let me be a little blinder To the faults about me; Let me praise a little more, Let me be, when I am weary; Just a little bit more cheery, Let me serve a little better Those that I am striving for. Let me be a little braver When temptation bids me waver, Let me strive a little harder To be all that I should be; Let me be a little meeker to the brother that is weaker; Let me think more of my neighbor and a little less of me.

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

Young, Vash

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

17.

Give light and people will find their own way.

18.

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

Jackson, Jesse

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You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Marden, Orison Swett

24.

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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You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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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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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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Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Give, and it shall be given to you. For whatever measure you deal out to others, it will be dealt to you in return.

Bible

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

32.

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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Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Johnson, Dave

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He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

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

P. D. James

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Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

38.

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

Mother Teresa

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The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them.

Mckeun, Rod

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

Charles Dudley Warner

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For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Gibbs, Philip

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

Munthe, Axel

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If you continually give, you will continually have.

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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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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