Motivational Quotes

Giving

A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver.

- Eleanor Hamilton

Best Quotes about Giving

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

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

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

Collier, Robert

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

Macewan, Norman

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

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

Gibbs, Philip

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

Anderson, Sparky

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

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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

11.

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

Speare, Grace

12.

You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

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

Ross, Percy

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

Virgil

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

Charles Dudley Warner

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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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A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver.

Eleanor Hamilton

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

Rohn, Jim

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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 that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Lao-Tzu

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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

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You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bible

29.

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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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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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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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

33.

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

Rogers, Will

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Bible

38.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Johnson, Dave

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If you continually give, you will continually have.

41.

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

Hobbs, Herschel

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Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

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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

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

Baughan, R.J.

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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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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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There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.