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

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Reed, Scott

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.

Albert Schweitzer

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

Proverb, Chinese

10.

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

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He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

12.

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

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

14.

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

Virgil

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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

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

Bible

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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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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

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

Lao-Tzu

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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 better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.

Rohn, Jim

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You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

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

27.

Give light and people will find their own way.

28.

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

Braunstein, Richard

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

Bible

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

Williamson, Marianne

31.

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

Canfield, Jack

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

Bible

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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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Lao-Tzu

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Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

41.

To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Baughan, R.J.

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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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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

46.

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

Anderson, Sparky

47.

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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