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

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.

Addison, Joseph

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

Edwards, Flora

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

Mckeun, Rod

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

Canfield, Jack

For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Braunstein, Richard

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

Eleanor Hamilton

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

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

Jackson, Jesse

10.

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

11.

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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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

13.

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

14.

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

Collier, Robert

18.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

John Wesley

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

24.

The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.

Tracy, Brian

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He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

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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 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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Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

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

Mother Teresa

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For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

34.

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

Gibbs, Philip

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

Euripides

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bible

38.

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

39.

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

Graham, Billy

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Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Bunyan, John

43.

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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Joyce, James

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The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Williamson, Marianne

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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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