Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

Best Quotes about Giving

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

Marden, Orison Swett

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.

Robbins, Anthony

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.

Camus, Albert

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

Anderson, Sparky

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

Euripides

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

Nature does not give to those who will not spend...

Baughan, R.J.

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

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

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You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

11.

The nine-tenths prove man's love, but the one-tenth tests man's legal obedience.

Hobbs, Herschel

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

John Wesley

13.

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

14.

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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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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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

17.

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

Proverb, Chinese

18.

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

Mother Teresa

19.

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

20.

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

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

Publilius Syrus

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

24.

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

25.

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

Gibbs, Philip

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

Collier, Robert

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

Braunstein, Richard

31.

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

Jackson, Jesse

32.

If you continually give, you will continually have.

33.

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

Charles Dudley Warner

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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.

35.

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

Macewan, Norman

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The real secret of happiness is not what you have or what you receive; it's what you share

37.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Lao-Tzu

39.

He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

Lao-Tzu

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Ruskin, John

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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

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Sheen, Fulton John

46.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Mckeun, Rod

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The Liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself. [Proverbs 11.25]

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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