Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Graham, Billy

Best Quotes about Giving

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Lao-Tzu

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

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

Rogers, Will

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

10.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

11.

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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It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.

Mother Teresa

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

Macewan, Norman

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

18.

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

Baughan, R.J.

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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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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 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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He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

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

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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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Give light and people will find their own way.

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Bunyan, John

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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]

Bible

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

Gibbs, Philip

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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

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The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Johnson, Dave

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Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

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

Young, Vash

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

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

Ross, Percy

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

Lao-Tzu