Motivational Quotes

Giving

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

- Benjamin, Walter

Best Quotes about Giving

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

John Wesley

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

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

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

Mother Teresa

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Graham, Billy

Give, and it shall be given to you. For whatever measure you deal out to others, it will be dealt to you in return.

Bible

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

10.

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

Anderson, Sparky

11.

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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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

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You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

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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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He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

16.

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

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Gibbs, Philip

18.

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

19.

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

Jackson, Jesse

20.

If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach.

Margaret Cho

21.

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

Lewis, C. S.

22.

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

Reed, Scott

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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

24.

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

Gide, Andre

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.

If you continually give, you will continually have.

27.

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

28.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Bible

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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

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Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

32.

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

33.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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 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

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Ruskin, John

38.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses.

Proverb

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

Bible

43.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

44.

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

Camus, Albert

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