Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Lewis, C. S.

Best Quotes about Giving

Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

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

Sheen, Fulton John

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

Anderson, Sparky

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

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

Ruskin, John

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

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

Mckeun, Rod

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

Baughan, R.J.

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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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

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

Ross, Percy

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

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

Eleanor Hamilton

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

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

P. D. James

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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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Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

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Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Munthe, Axel

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

31.

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

Williamson, Marianne

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The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of oneself to others.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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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.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Young, Vash

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There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

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Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

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You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon