Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Charles Dudley Warner

Best Quotes about Giving

1.

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

Canfield, Jack

2.

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

Edwards, Flora

3.

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

4.

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

5.

Give light and people will find their own way.

6.

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

Young, Vash

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

P. D. James

11.

When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, while their present-giving instincts often remain in the undeveloped condition of their earlier days. Something showy and not-too-expensive in a shop is their only conception of the ideal gift.

Munro, Hector Hugh

12.

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

Baughan, R.J.

13.

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

Camus, Albert

14.

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

15.

If you continually give, you will continually have.

16.

For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

17.

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

Braunstein, Richard

18.

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

Williamson, Marianne

19.

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

Andrus, Ethel Percy

20.

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

21.

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

Lewis, C. S.

22.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

23.

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

24.

It is like the seed put in the soil -- the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

Marden, Orison Swett

25.

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

John Wesley

26.

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

Jackson, Jesse

27.

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

28.

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

Lao-Tzu

29.

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

Rohn, Jim

30.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

31.

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

Anderson, Sparky

32.

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

33.

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

Ross, Percy

34.

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

35.

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

Reed, Scott

36.

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

Speare, Grace

37.

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

Robbins, Anthony

38.

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

Mother Teresa

39.

Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

40.

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

41.

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

Mckeun, Rod

42.

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

Munthe, Axel

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

46.

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

47.

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

Johnson, Dave

48.

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

49.

Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

50.

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold