Motivational Quotes

Giving

A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.

- Jackson, Jesse

Best Quotes about Giving

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

Ruskin, John

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

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

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

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

John Wesley

10.

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

Braunstein, Richard

11.

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

12.

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

13.

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

Lao-Tzu

14.

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

15.

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

Gibbs, Philip

16.

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

Robbins, Anthony

17.

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

Charles Dudley Warner

18.

You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

19.

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

20.

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

Speare, Grace

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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.

24.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

25.

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

26.

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

27.

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

Munthe, Axel

28.

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

Young, Vash

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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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He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

34.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

35.

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

Canfield, Jack

36.

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

Reed, Scott

37.

What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.

P. D. James

38.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

39.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

40.

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

Euripides

41.

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

42.

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

Proverb

43.

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

Mother Teresa

44.

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

45.

For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

46.

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

47.

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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You have to sow before you can reap. You have to give before you can get.