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

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Hobbs, Herschel

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

Give little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

Ruskin, John

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

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

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

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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

11.

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

Gibbs, Philip

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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

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If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach.

Margaret Cho

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Euripides

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

Reed, Scott

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

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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

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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

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

Young, Vash

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

Johnson, Dave

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Bunyan, John

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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

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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 doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

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

Gide, Andre

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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

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

Speare, Grace

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The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of oneself to others.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Mckeun, Rod

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

Munthe, Axel

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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

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

Ross, Percy

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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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Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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