Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Collier, Robert

Best Quotes about Giving

1.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

2.

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

Mckeun, Rod

3.

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

4.

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

Robbins, Anthony

5.

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

Anderson, Sparky

6.

If you continually give, you will continually have.

7.

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

8.

Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

9.

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

Bible

10.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

11.

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

12.

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

Speare, Grace

13.

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

14.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

15.

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

16.

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

17.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

18.

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

Young, Vash

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.

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

Camus, Albert

21.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

22.

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

23.

Give light and people will find their own way.

24.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

25.

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

Lao-Tzu

26.

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

Collier, Robert

27.

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

28.

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

Johnson, Dave

29.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

30.

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

Canfield, Jack

31.

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

32.

Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting.

Meltzer, Bernard

33.

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

Ross, Percy

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

38.

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

39.

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

Bible

40.

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

Virgil

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Publilius Syrus

44.

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

Euripides

45.

For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

46.

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

47.

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

Gide, Andre

48.

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

49.

You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

50.

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

Macewan, Norman