Motivational Quotes

Giving

You give before you get.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Giving

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

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.

Robbins, Anthony

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Bible

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]

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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

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

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For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

11.

Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

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Give light and people will find their own way.

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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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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

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

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

Ruskin, John

21.

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

Camus, Albert

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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.

23.

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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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

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Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

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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]

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Williamson, Marianne

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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

39.

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

Bible

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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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Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

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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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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

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He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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

John Wesley

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

Charles Dudley Warner

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

Gide, Andre

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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