Motivational Quotes

Giving

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

- Corneille, Pierre

Best Quotes about Giving

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

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

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

Munthe, Axel

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

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

P. D. James

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

Virgil

A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Euripides

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

Baughan, R.J.

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Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

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You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Camus, Albert

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Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Edwards, Flora

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The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Anderson, Sparky

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The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.

Seneca

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

Speare, Grace

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For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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Give light and people will find their own way.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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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

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

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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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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

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

Mother Teresa

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Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Sheen, Fulton John

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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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If you continually give, you will continually have.

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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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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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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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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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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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

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

Lao-Tzu

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You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Seek joy in what you give not in what you get