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

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

Collier, Robert

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

Gibbs, Philip

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of forests. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high.

Macleod, Fiona

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

Munthe, Axel

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

Proverb

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

Speare, Grace

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

John Wesley

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

Bible

10.

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

11.

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

Lao-Tzu

12.

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

Canfield, Jack

13.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

14.

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

15.

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

16.

Give light and people will find their own way.

17.

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

18.

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

Baughan, R.J.

19.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

20.

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

Gide, Andre

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Euripides

24.

Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

25.

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

26.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

27.

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

28.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

29.

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

P. D. James

30.

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

Reed, Scott

31.

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

32.

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

33.

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

Charles Dudley Warner

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

38.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

39.

For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Rohn, Jim

45.

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

Mother Teresa

46.

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

Bible

47.

If you continually give, you will continually have.

48.

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

Bible

49.

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

Mckeun, Rod

50.

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