Motivational Quotes

Giving

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

- Corneille, Pierre

Best Quotes about Giving

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

Mother Teresa

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

John Wesley

If I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed.

Williamson, Marianne

God has given to all men free agency and has granted us the privilege to serve Him or serve Him not, to do that which is right or that which is wrong, but he will hold us strictly to an account for the use that we make of this agency.

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

Giving presents is a talent; to know what a person wants, to know when and how to get it, to give it lovingly and well. Unless a character possesses this talent there is no moment more annihilating to ease than that in which a present is received and given.

Glenconner, Pamela

It is like the seed put in the soil -- the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Bible

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

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To whom much is given is much required. [Luke 12:48]

Bible

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Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

12.

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

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

Munthe, Axel

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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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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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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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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

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There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

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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

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

Euripides

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

Proverb

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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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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

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

Hobbs, Herschel

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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

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

Young, Vash

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

Ross, Percy

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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

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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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It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving.

Braunstein, Richard

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

Macewan, Norman

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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.

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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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Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

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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

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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

Rogers, Will

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Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

41.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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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

43.

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

Lewis, C. S.

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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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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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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.

47.

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

Baughan, R.J.

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Rohn, Jim

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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