Motivational Quotes

Giving

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

- Fleet, James Van

Best Quotes about Giving

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

Edwards, Flora

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

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

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

Lewis, C. S.

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.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Bible

He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

Lao-Tzu

10.

The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.

Andrus, Ethel Percy

11.

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

13.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Proverb

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You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

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

Ruskin, John

18.

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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There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

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

Baughan, R.J.

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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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Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

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You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Marden, Orison Swett

28.

For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

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

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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 you give yourself, you receive more than you give.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

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

Anderson, Sparky

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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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The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

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God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

Graham, Billy

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

Mckeun, Rod

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You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Give light and people will find their own way.

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

P. D. James

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

Lao-Tzu

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He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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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