Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Lao-Tzu

Best Quotes about Giving

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

Graham, Billy

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

P. D. James

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Bible

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

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses.

Proverb

Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

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He who gives while he lives, get to know where it goes.

Ross, Percy

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

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

Gibbs, Philip

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

Baughan, R.J.

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

John Wesley

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Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

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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

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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To whom much is given is much required. [Luke 12:48]

Bible

31.

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

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

Canfield, Jack

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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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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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Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

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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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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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Bible

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I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

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Giving opens the way for receiving.