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

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.

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.

John Wesley

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

Mother Teresa

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

10.

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

16.

If you continually give, you will continually have.

17.

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

18.

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

Virgil

19.

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

20.

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

21.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

22.

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

23.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

24.

Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

25.

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

26.

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

Rogers, Will

27.

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

Publilius Syrus

28.

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

Proverb, Chinese

29.

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

Reed, Scott

30.

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

Baughan, R.J.

31.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

32.

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

Andrus, Ethel Percy

33.

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

Johnson, Dave

34.

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

35.

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

Proverb

36.

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

37.

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

Speare, Grace

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

Collier, Robert