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

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Bible

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

Reed, Scott

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.

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

Canfield, Jack

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

Mckeun, Rod

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

Proverb

The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.

Baltasar Gracian

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

Speare, Grace

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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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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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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

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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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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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You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Charles Dudley Warner

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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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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

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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

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

Johnson, Dave

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Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting.

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Munthe, Axel

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

Sheen, Fulton John

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Euripides

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In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.

Edwards, Flora

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

Braunstein, Richard

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Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

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

Anderson, Sparky

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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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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There never was a person who did anything worth doing, who did not receive more than he gave.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

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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

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

Lewis, C. S.

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The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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If you continually give, you will continually have.

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

P. D. James

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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