Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Lewis, C. S.

Best Quotes about Giving

Let me be a little kinder, Let me be a little blinder To the faults about me; Let me praise a little more, Let me be, when I am weary; Just a little bit more cheery, Let me serve a little better Those that I am striving for. Let me be a little braver When temptation bids me waver, Let me strive a little harder To be all that I should be; Let me be a little meeker to the brother that is weaker; Let me think more of my neighbor and a little less of me.

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

For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.

Edwards, Flora

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

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

Mother Teresa

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Eleanor Hamilton

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

Sheen, Fulton John

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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]

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

Baughan, R.J.

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

John Wesley

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Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

23.

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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Give light and people will find their own way.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Graham, Billy

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

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

30.

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

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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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What you keep to yourself you lose, what you give away, you keep forever.

Munthe, Axel

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He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

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Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

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He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Proverb

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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

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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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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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Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

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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 give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

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Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

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God has given to all men free agency and has granted us the privilege to serve Him or serve Him not, to do that which is right or that which is wrong, but he will hold us strictly to an account for the use that we make of this agency.

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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