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

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

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

Reed, Scott

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

Bible

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

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

Mckeun, Rod

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Edwards, Flora

10.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

11.

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

12.

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]

Bible

13.

I have always noticed that a man who gives the most for the money, gets the most business.

Young, Vash

14.

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

Euripides

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

18.

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

Ross, Percy

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

23.

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

Lewis, C. S.

24.

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

Publilius Syrus

25.

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

26.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

Charles Dudley Warner

27.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Eleanor Hamilton

34.

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

Speare, Grace

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

P. D. James

38.

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.

Robbins, Anthony

39.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

40.

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

Macewan, Norman

41.

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

Andrus, Ethel Percy

42.

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

43.

Giving half answers won't make the conversation half as long.

Johnson, Dave

44.

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

45.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

46.

The real secret of happiness is not what you have or what you receive; it's what you share

47.

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

Camus, Albert

48.

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

Anderson, Sparky