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

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

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.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

John Wesley

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

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

Publilius Syrus

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

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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

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

Braunstein, Richard

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

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

Ruskin, John

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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

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

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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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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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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

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The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Lao-Tzu

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Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

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Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Hobbs, Herschel

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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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There never was a person who did anything worth doing, who did not receive more than he gave.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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

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

P. D. James

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

Speare, Grace

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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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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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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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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

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Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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