Motivational Quotes

Giving

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

- Fleet, James Van

Best Quotes about Giving

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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.

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

Rogers, Will

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

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

Williamson, Marianne

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

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

Gibbs, Philip

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of oneself to others.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

10.

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

Braunstein, Richard

11.

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.

12.

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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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

14.

Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

15.

There never was a person who did anything worth doing, who did not receive more than he gave.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Meltzer, Bernard

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Bible

20.

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

Lewis, C. S.

21.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

22.

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

Bunyan, John

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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

24.

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

Publilius Syrus

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

31.

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

Johnson, Dave

32.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

33.

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

34.

All that this world knows of living lies in giving -- and more giving; He that keeps, be sure he loses -Friendship grows by what it uses.

Maclaren, Alexander

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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

36.

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

Ruskin, John

37.

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

Canfield, Jack

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

42.

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

43.

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

Munthe, Axel

44.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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

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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

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

Meltzer, Bernard

48.

Give light and people will find their own way.

49.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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