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

1.

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

Mother Teresa

2.

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

3.

If you continually give, you will continually have.

4.

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

Andrus, Ethel Percy

5.

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

6.

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

7.

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

Bunyan, John

8.

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

Baughan, R.J.

9.

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

10.

You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

11.

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

12.

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

Euripides

13.

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

14.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Bible

19.

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

20.

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

Hobbs, Herschel

21.

Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

22.

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

23.

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

Publilius Syrus

24.

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

Edwards, Flora

25.

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Rogers, Will

29.

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

30.

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

Braunstein, Richard

31.

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

32.

Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

33.

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

Virgil

34.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

35.

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

Reed, Scott

36.

What you keep to yourself you lose, what you give away, you keep forever.

Munthe, Axel

37.

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

Ruskin, John

38.

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

Bible

39.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

40.

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

Proverb, Chinese

41.

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

42.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

43.

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

44.

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

Lao-Tzu

45.

Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

46.

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

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

47.

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

48.

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

Graham, Billy

49.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

50.

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