Motivational Quotes

Giving

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

- Forbes, Malcolm S.

Best Quotes about Giving

1.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

2.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

3.

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

Proverb

4.

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

5.

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

Bible

6.

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

Gide, Andre

7.

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

8.

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

Bible

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Andrus, Ethel Percy

12.

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

Rohn, Jim

13.

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

14.

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

Hobbs, Herschel

15.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

16.

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

17.

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

Anderson, Sparky

18.

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

John Wesley

19.

You can no more give what you haven't learned than you can come back from a place you've never been.

20.

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

Rogers, Will

21.

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

22.

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

Graham, Billy

23.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

24.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

25.

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

Macewan, Norman

26.

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

27.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

28.

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

Euripides

29.

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

Lewis, C. S.

30.

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

31.

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

32.

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

Young, Vash

33.

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

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

34.

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.

Camus, Albert

35.

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

Lao-Tzu

36.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

37.

Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

38.

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

Lao-Tzu

39.

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

40.

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

41.

Sow much, reap much; sow little, reap little.

Proverb, Chinese

42.

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

43.

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

Braunstein, Richard

44.

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

45.

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

46.

If you continually give, you will continually have.

47.

He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

48.

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

Charles Dudley Warner

49.

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

50.

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

Reed, Scott