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 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

You cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually giving -- and getting. You cannot hold on to your seed. You must sow it -- and reap anew. You cannot hold on to riches. You must use them and get other riches in return.

Collier, Robert

When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

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

Sheen, Fulton John

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

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

Canfield, Jack

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

John Wesley

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

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

12.

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

Hobbs, Herschel

13.

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

Eleanor Hamilton

14.

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

15.

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

P. D. James

16.

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

Mother Teresa

17.

It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving.

Braunstein, Richard

18.

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

19.

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

Ross, Percy

20.

There is only one way to succeed in anything and that is to give everything. I do and I demand that my players do. Any man's finest hour is when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle... victorious.

Lombardi, Vince

21.

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

Euripides

22.

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

Young, Vash

23.

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

Speare, Grace

24.

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

25.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

26.

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.

27.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Lewis, C. S.

32.

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

33.

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

Lao-Tzu

34.

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

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

35.

You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

36.

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

Camus, Albert

37.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

38.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

39.

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

Anderson, Sparky

40.

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.

41.

A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.

Publilius Syrus

42.

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

43.

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

44.

There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.

Sarton, May

45.

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

Charles Dudley Warner

46.

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

47.

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

Proverb, Chinese

48.

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

Bunyan, John

49.

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

Virgil

50.

There never was a person who did anything worth doing, who did not receive more than he gave.