Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Braunstein, Richard

Best Quotes about Giving

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

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

Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

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

Mckeun, Rod

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

Braunstein, Richard

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

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.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Gibbs, Philip

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

Graham, Billy

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

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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

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

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There would be no advantage to be gained by sowing a field of wheat if the harvest did not return more than was sown.

Hill, Napoleon

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I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Canfield, Jack

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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.

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Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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27.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

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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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Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

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

Collier, Robert

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

Baughan, R.J.

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

Williamson, Marianne

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

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

Reed, Scott

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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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Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Mother Teresa

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.

P. D. James

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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.

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

Ruskin, John

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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]

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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