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

1.

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

Bunyan, John

6.

It is more blessed to give than to receive. [Acts 20:35]

Bible

7.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

8.

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

Munthe, Axel

9.

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

Lao-Tzu

10.

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

11.

You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

12.

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

Andrus, Ethel Percy

13.

Let each one do just as he has purposed in his heart; not grudgingly or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver. [2 Corinthians 9:7]

Bible

14.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

15.

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

16.

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

17.

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

Edwards, Flora

18.

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

19.

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

Canfield, Jack

20.

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

21.

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

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22.

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

23.

Trust not the horse, O Trojans. Be it what it may, I fear the Grecians even when they offer gifts.

Virgil

24.

He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

25.

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

26.

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

27.

I have always noticed that a man who gives the most for the money, gets the most business.

Young, Vash

28.

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

Speare, Grace

29.

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

Braunstein, Richard

30.

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

Publilius Syrus

31.

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

32.

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

Mother Teresa

33.

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

Proverb

34.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

35.

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

Charles Dudley Warner

36.

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

37.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of oneself to others.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

38.

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

Rohn, Jim

39.

One man gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want. [Proverbs 11-24]

Bible

40.

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

41.

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

Bible

42.

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

Mckeun, Rod

43.

Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

44.

If you continually give, you will continually have.

45.

No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.

Angelis, Barbara De

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Johnson, Dave

49.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

50.

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

John Wesley