Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Lewis, C. S.

Best Quotes about Giving

1.

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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2.

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

Euripides

3.

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

4.

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

5.

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

Virgil

6.

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

Williamson, Marianne

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

Proverb, Chinese

10.

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

Young, Vash

11.

He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

12.

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

P. D. James

13.

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

Collier, Robert

14.

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

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15.

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

Braunstein, Richard

16.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

17.

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

18.

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

19.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

20.

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

Publilius Syrus

21.

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

22.

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

John Wesley

23.

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

Bible

24.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

25.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

26.

Give, and it shall be given to you. For whatever measure you deal out to others, it will be dealt to you in return.

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27.

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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28.

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

Rohn, Jim

29.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

30.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

31.

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

Baughan, R.J.

32.

We must give more in order to get more, It is the generous giving of ourselves that produce the generous harvest.

Marden, Orison Swett

33.

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

Munthe, Axel

34.

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

Eleanor Hamilton

35.

Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

36.

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

Lao-Tzu

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Ross, Percy

40.

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.

41.

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

42.

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

Proverb

43.

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

44.

If you continually give, you will continually have.

45.

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

Gibbs, Philip

46.

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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47.

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

48.

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

Hobbs, Herschel

49.

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

50.

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