Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Lao-Tzu

Best Quotes about Giving

1.

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

2.

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

Braunstein, Richard

3.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

4.

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

Rohn, Jim

5.

If I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed.

Williamson, Marianne

6.

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

Euripides

7.

Give light and people will find their own way.

8.

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

9.

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

10.

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

11.

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

12.

Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

13.

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

Virgil

14.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

15.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

16.

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

Young, Vash

17.

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

18.

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

19.

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

20.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

21.

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

22.

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

Publilius Syrus

23.

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Canfield, Jack

29.

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

30.

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

Baughan, R.J.

31.

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

32.

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

Bible

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

Hobbs, Herschel

35.

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

36.

You can no more give what you haven't learned than you can come back from a place you've never been.

37.

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

38.

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.

39.

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

Gide, Andre

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Rogers, Will

43.

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

Gibbs, Philip

44.

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

Mckeun, Rod

45.

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.