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

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

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

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

Eleanor Hamilton

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

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

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Gibbs, Philip

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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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

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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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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

Gide, Andre

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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16.

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

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

Williamson, Marianne

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Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

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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 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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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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If you continually give, you will continually have.

25.

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

Lewis, C. S.

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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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You must give to get, You must sow the seed, before you can reap the harvest.

Reed, Scott

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

Braunstein, Richard

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

Jackson, Jesse

32.

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

33.

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.

Camus, Albert

34.

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

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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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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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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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There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

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

Baughan, R.J.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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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 is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.

Rohn, Jim

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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

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You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

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The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Sheen, Fulton John

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

Young, Vash