Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Charles Dudley Warner

Best Quotes about Giving

Give light and people will find their own way.

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

Rohn, Jim

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Bible

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

Hobbs, Herschel

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

10.

There never was a person who did anything worth doing, who did not receive more than he gave.

Beecher, Henry Ward

11.

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

Lewis, C. S.

12.

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

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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

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

Lao-Tzu

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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.

16.

I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.

Lewis, C. S.

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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

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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.

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

Andrus, Ethel Percy

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

Eleanor Hamilton

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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

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Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

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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

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He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

25.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Publilius Syrus

27.

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

Ross, Percy

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The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

29.

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

John Wesley

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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

Reed, Scott

37.

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

Baughan, R.J.

38.

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

39.

The big print giveth, and the fine print taketh away.

Sheen, Fulton John

40.

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

Rogers, Will

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

Canfield, Jack

43.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

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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

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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.

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

P. D. James

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

Bible

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

Euripides

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EARN as much as you can. SAVE as much as you can. INVEST as much as you can. GIVE as much as you can.

Wellesly, Rev. John