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

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

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

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

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

Marden, Orison Swett

Give light and people will find their own way.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Lao-Tzu

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Lewis, C. S.

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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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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.

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If you continually give, you will continually have.

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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.

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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.

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The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Canfield, Jack

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Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

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

Sheen, Fulton John

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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]

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Eleanor Hamilton

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

Baughan, R.J.

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There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

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

Proverb

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

John Wesley

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

Bunyan, John

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

Jackson, Jesse

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Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

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

Reed, Scott

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

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