Motivational Quotes

Giving

The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.

- Andrus, Ethel Percy

Best Quotes about Giving

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

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

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

Mother Teresa

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

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

Virgil

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

Bible

You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

10.

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

11.

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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The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.

Andrus, Ethel Percy

13.

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

14.

One man gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want. [Proverbs 11-24]

Bible

15.

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

Hobbs, Herschel

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

Charles Dudley Warner

17.

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

18.

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

Ross, Percy

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

Lao-Tzu

20.

Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

21.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

22.

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

Camus, Albert

23.

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

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The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

25.

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

Young, Vash

26.

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

27.

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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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.

29.

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

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

Canfield, Jack

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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Anderson, Sparky

34.

Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

35.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

36.

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

Ruskin, John

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There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

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

Macewan, Norman

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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

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The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Lao-Tzu

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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.

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

Munthe, Axel

49.

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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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