Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- John Wesley

Best Quotes about Giving

You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Edwards, Flora

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

13.

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

Reed, Scott

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

P. D. James

18.

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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Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

21.

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

Johnson, Dave

22.

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

John Wesley

23.

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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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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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 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

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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 that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Mother Teresa

31.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

33.

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

Williamson, Marianne

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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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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

36.

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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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

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