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

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

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

Speare, Grace

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

Ruskin, John

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

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

10.

If you continually give, you will continually have.

11.

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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Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.

John Wesley

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The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.

Baltasar Gracian

14.

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

15.

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

Lao-Tzu

16.

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

17.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

18.

Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

19.

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

Bunyan, John

20.

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

Bible

21.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

22.

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

23.

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

Gide, Andre

24.

Give light and people will find their own way.

25.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

26.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

27.

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

Ross, Percy

28.

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

Macewan, Norman

29.

Giving presents is a talent; to know what a person wants, to know when and how to get it, to give it lovingly and well. Unless a character possesses this talent there is no moment more annihilating to ease than that in which a present is received and given.

Glenconner, Pamela

30.

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

Mckeun, Rod

31.

You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

32.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of oneself to others.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

33.

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

Reed, Scott

34.

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

Camus, Albert

35.

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

36.

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

Young, Vash

37.

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

38.

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

P. D. James

39.

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

Williamson, Marianne

40.

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

Baughan, R.J.

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We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

Seneca

42.

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

Euripides

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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

44.

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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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

46.

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 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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Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

49.

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

Johnson, Dave

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For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.