Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Giving

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

Gide, Andre

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

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

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

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

Anderson, Sparky

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Bible

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

10.

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

11.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

12.

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

13.

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

Virgil

14.

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

15.

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

Eleanor Hamilton

16.

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

Lao-Tzu

17.

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

Ruskin, John

18.

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.

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Euripides

22.

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

23.

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

Williamson, Marianne

24.

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

25.

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

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

26.

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

Bible

27.

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

Charles Dudley Warner

28.

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

Jackson, Jesse

29.

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

30.

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

31.

You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

32.

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

33.

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

Ross, Percy

34.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

35.

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

Canfield, Jack

36.

You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

37.

Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

38.

Gifts allow us to demonstrate exactly how little we know about a person. And nothing pisses a person off more than being shoved into the wrong pigeonhole.

Pam Davis

39.

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

Bible

40.

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

Rohn, Jim

41.

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

42.

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