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

God has given to all men free agency and has granted us the privilege to serve Him or serve Him not, to do that which is right or that which is wrong, but he will hold us strictly to an account for the use that we make of this agency.

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

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Braunstein, Richard

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

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

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

Macewan, Norman

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

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

Bible

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

Edwards, Flora

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

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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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For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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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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Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting.

Meltzer, Bernard

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Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

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You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

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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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Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

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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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There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

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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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Give light and people will find their own way.

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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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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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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

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When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.

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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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You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Gide, Andre

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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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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

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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The trick is to realize that after giving your best, there's nothing more to give.

Anderson, Sparky

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

P. D. James

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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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Joyce, James

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Proverb, Chinese

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He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas