Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

Best Quotes about Giving

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Proverb

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

Speare, Grace

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

Mother Teresa

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

Sheen, Fulton John

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

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

Charles Dudley Warner

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

Gide, Andre

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

Collier, Robert

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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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He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.

Bunyan, John

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Give light and people will find their own way.

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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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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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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Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

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

Munthe, Axel

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You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

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The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.

Andrus, Ethel Percy

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Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Lewis, C. S.

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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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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

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Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

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

Lao-Tzu

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

John Wesley

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

Johnson, Dave

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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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I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

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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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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

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Reed, Scott

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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

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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.