Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

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Best Quotes about Giving

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Braunstein, Richard

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

Reed, Scott

EARN as much as you can. SAVE as much as you can. INVEST as much as you can. GIVE as much as you can.

Wellesly, Rev. John

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

Baughan, R.J.

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

Eleanor Hamilton

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.

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

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You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

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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 big print giveth, and the fine print taketh away.

Sheen, Fulton John

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

Ross, Percy

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He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.

Bunyan, John

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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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Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Anderson, Sparky

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Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them.

Mckeun, Rod

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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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We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving

Meltzer, Bernard

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

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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

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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

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Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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

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

Lewis, C. S.

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The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Gibbs, Philip

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

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

Euripides

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

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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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Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Andrus, Ethel Percy

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You have to sow before you can reap. You have to give before you can get.