Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

Best Quotes about Giving

1.

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

Publilius Syrus

2.

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

Eleanor Hamilton

3.

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

4.

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

Williamson, Marianne

5.

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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6.

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

7.

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

John Wesley

8.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

9.

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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10.

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

Gibbs, Philip

11.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

12.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

Charles Dudley Warner

13.

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

14.

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

Proverb

15.

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

16.

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

Mother Teresa

17.

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

18.

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

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19.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

20.

For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

21.

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

Anderson, Sparky

22.

The more we give of anything, the more we shall get back.

Speare, Grace

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Rohn, Jim

26.

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

27.

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.

Robbins, Anthony

28.

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

Lao-Tzu

29.

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

30.

Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

31.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

32.

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

33.

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

34.

He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.

Bunyan, John

35.

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

36.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

37.

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

Braunstein, Richard

38.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

39.

Giving half answers won't make the conversation half as long.

Johnson, Dave

40.

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

41.

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

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42.

Give light and people will find their own way.

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Mckeun, Rod

46.

we make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

47.

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

48.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

49.

Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

50.

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary