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

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

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

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

Virgil

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

Euripides

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

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

Macewan, Norman

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

Williamson, Marianne

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

10.

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

11.

Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

12.

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

Lao-Tzu

13.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

14.

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

15.

To whom much is given is much required. [Luke 12:48]

Bible

16.

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

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.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

19.

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

20.

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

Anderson, Sparky

21.

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

Gide, Andre

22.

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

Camus, Albert

23.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Proverb, Chinese

25.

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

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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]

Bible

27.

Give light and people will find their own way.

28.

You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

29.

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

Edwards, Flora

30.

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

Bunyan, John

31.

Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

32.

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

Bible

33.

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

Ross, Percy

34.

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

35.

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

Andrus, Ethel Percy

36.

We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.

La Fontaine, Jean De

37.

The Liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself. [Proverbs 11.25]

Bible

38.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Hobbs, Herschel

40.

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

Rohn, Jim

41.

You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

42.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Eleanor Hamilton

47.

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

Ruskin, John

48.

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

49.

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Lao-Tzu