Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Braunstein, Richard

Best Quotes about Giving

Do unto the other feller the way he'd like to do unto you, and do it fast.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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

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

Ross, Percy

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

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

Bible

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

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

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

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

10.

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

Eleanor Hamilton

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Give light and people will find their own way.

12.

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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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

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

Lao-Tzu

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

John Wesley

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

Lao-Tzu

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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

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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

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

22.

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

Mother Teresa

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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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

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

30.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

31.

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

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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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In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.

Edwards, Flora

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Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

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He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

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Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

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Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

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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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we make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

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

Speare, Grace

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

Meltzer, Bernard

44.

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

Proverb

45.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

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Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

47.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

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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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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