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

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

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

Munthe, Axel

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Ruskin, John

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

Give light and people will find their own way.

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

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

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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Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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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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You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Collier, Robert

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

Gibbs, Philip

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

Mother Teresa

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

Rohn, Jim

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

21.

We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving

Meltzer, Bernard

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For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

John Wesley

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

Johnson, Dave

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Bible

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

33.

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

Bible

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

Ross, Percy

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Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

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

Bible

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He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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

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

Anderson, Sparky

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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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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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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 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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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.

48.

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

Williamson, Marianne

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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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You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon