Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Giving

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Baughan, R.J.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Eleanor Hamilton

Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

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

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

Euripides

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

Bible

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Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

11.

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

Collier, Robert

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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.

13.

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

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

Proverb

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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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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

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

Bible

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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

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

Ruskin, John

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Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

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

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

25.

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

26.

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

27.

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

Jackson, Jesse

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The nine-tenths prove man's love, but the one-tenth tests man's legal obedience.

Hobbs, Herschel

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

30.

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

Lao-Tzu

31.

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

Macewan, Norman

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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Gide, Andre

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A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.

Publilius Syrus

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You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

38.

Give light and people will find their own way.

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

Canfield, Jack

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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

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Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Virgil

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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

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You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

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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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Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

48.

I wonder if it isn't just cowardice instead of generosity that makes us give tips.

Rogers, Will

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