Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

Best Quotes about Giving

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

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

Euripides

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

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

Johnson, Dave

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

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

Speare, Grace

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

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.

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

Graham, Billy

10.

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

Ross, Percy

11.

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

12.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

13.

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

14.

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

15.

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.

16.

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

17.

I wonder if it isn't just cowardice instead of generosity that makes us give tips.

Rogers, Will

18.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

19.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

20.

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

Young, Vash

21.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

22.

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

Anderson, Sparky

24.

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

Mother Teresa

25.

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

Andrus, Ethel Percy

26.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

27.

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

Gibbs, Philip

28.

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

Williamson, Marianne

29.

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

30.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

31.

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

Publilius Syrus

32.

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

33.

If you continually give, you will continually have.

34.

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.

35.

For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

36.

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

Jackson, Jesse

37.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

38.

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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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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Munthe, Axel

43.

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

44.

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

Bible

45.

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

46.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

47.

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

48.

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

Braunstein, Richard

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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