Motivational Quotes

Giving

You give before you get.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Giving

1.

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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2.

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

Mckeun, Rod

3.

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

4.

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.

5.

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

Proverb, Chinese

6.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

7.

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

Lewis, C. S.

8.

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

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9.

The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.

Tracy, Brian

10.

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

11.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

12.

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

Baughan, R.J.

13.

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

14.

It is more blessed to give than to receive. [Acts 20:35]

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15.

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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16.

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

17.

The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.

Seneca

18.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

19.

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

Lao-Tzu

20.

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

Bunyan, John

21.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

22.

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

23.

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

Braunstein, Richard

24.

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

Andrus, Ethel Percy

25.

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

26.

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

27.

The more we give of anything, the more we shall get back.

Speare, Grace

28.

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

29.

If you continually give, you will continually have.

30.

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

Proverb

31.

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

Hobbs, Herschel

32.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

33.

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

Canfield, Jack

34.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

35.

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

Young, Vash

36.

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

37.

You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

38.

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

Anderson, Sparky

39.

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

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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.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

42.

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

John Wesley

43.

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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44.

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

Macewan, Norman

45.

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

Gibbs, Philip

46.

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

47.

Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

48.

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.

49.

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

50.

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

Sheen, Fulton John