Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

Best Quotes about Giving

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

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

Edwards, Flora

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

One man gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want. [Proverbs 11-24]

Bible

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

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

Camus, Albert

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

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

Johnson, Dave

10.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

11.

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

12.

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.

13.

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

14.

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

Collier, Robert

15.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

16.

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

17.

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

Hobbs, Herschel

18.

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

Rogers, Will

19.

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

20.

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

Bible

21.

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

Canfield, Jack

22.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

23.

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

Bible

24.

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

Lewis, C. S.

25.

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

Andrus, Ethel Percy

26.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

27.

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

Reed, Scott

28.

There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.

Sarton, May

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Proverb, Chinese

32.

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

33.

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.

34.

He that loveth, flieth, runneth, and rejoiceth. He is free, and cannot be held in. He giveth all for all, and hath all in all, because he resteth in one highest above all things, from whom all that is good flows and proceeds.

Kempis, Thomas

35.

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

36.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

37.

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

Bunyan, John

38.

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

Proverb

39.

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

40.

For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

41.

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

42.

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

Baughan, R.J.

43.

Collier, Robert

44.

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

45.

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

Mckeun, Rod

46.

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

47.

Before he left, Aunt William pressed a sovereign into his hand guiltily, as if it were conscience money. He, on his side, took it as though it were a doctor's fee, and both ignored the transaction.

Leverson, Ada

48.

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

49.

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

Munthe, Axel

50.

Give light and people will find their own way.