Motivational Quotes

Giving

You only get to keep what you give away.

- Kopp, Sheldon

Best Quotes about Giving

1.

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

2.

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

Collier, Robert

3.

Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

4.

Give little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

Ruskin, John

5.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

6.

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

P. D. James

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

10.

You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

11.

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

12.

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

Macewan, Norman

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

15.

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

Gibbs, Philip

16.

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

Proverb, Chinese

17.

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

Bunyan, John

18.

He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

19.

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

20.

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

Reed, Scott

21.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

24.

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

Andrus, Ethel Percy

25.

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

John Wesley

26.

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

Eleanor Hamilton

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Gide, Andre

31.

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

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32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Euripides

35.

I wonder if it isn't just cowardice instead of generosity that makes us give tips.

Rogers, Will

36.

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

37.

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

38.

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

39.

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

40.

Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

41.

Do unto the other feller the way he'd like to do unto you, and do it fast.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

42.

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

Johnson, Dave

43.

You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon