Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- John Wesley

Best Quotes about Giving

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

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

Publilius Syrus

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Meltzer, Bernard

Do unto the other feller the way he'd like to do unto you, and do it fast.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Euripides

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

P. D. James

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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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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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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

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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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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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Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

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

Williamson, Marianne

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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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He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

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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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Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver.

Eleanor Hamilton

27.

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

Braunstein, Richard

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

Hobbs, Herschel

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Give and it shall be given unto you: good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over... [Luke 6:38]

Bible

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Give light and people will find their own way.

32.

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

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

Munthe, Axel

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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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I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

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

Macewan, Norman

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

Johnson, Dave

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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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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

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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

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For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

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

Bible

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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.

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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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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