Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Canfield, Jack

Best Quotes about Giving

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

Bible

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

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

P. D. James

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

Mother Teresa

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

Give light and people will find their own way.

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

Johnson, Dave

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

12.

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

Reed, Scott

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

John Wesley

14.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

15.

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

Macewan, Norman

16.

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

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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

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It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.

Gibbs, Philip

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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

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

Collier, Robert

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

Camus, Albert

22.

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Proverb, Chinese

24.

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

25.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Ross, Percy

27.

All that this world knows of living lies in giving -- and more giving; He that keeps, be sure he loses -Friendship grows by what it uses.

Maclaren, Alexander

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God has given to all men free agency and has granted us the privilege to serve Him or serve Him not, to do that which is right or that which is wrong, but he will hold us strictly to an account for the use that we make of this agency.

29.

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

Ruskin, John

30.

He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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

33.

Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

34.

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.

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

Munthe, Axel

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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

37.

You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

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

39.

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

Virgil

40.

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

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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

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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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If you continually give, you will continually have.

44.

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

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

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You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon