Motivational Quotes

Giving

You try to give away what you want yourself.

- Lois McMaster Bujold

Best Quotes about Giving

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

John Wesley

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

Virgil

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Braunstein, Richard

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

Speare, Grace

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

Gide, Andre

10.

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

11.

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

Euripides

12.

He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

13.

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

Mother Teresa

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

Baughan, R.J.

16.

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

17.

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

18.

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

19.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

20.

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

Camus, Albert

21.

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

Lao-Tzu

22.

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

23.

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

P. D. James

24.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

25.

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

26.

When you're nice to people, they want to be nice back to you.

Canfield, Jack

27.

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

28.

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

Charles Dudley Warner

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Bible

32.

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

33.

I wonder if it isn't just cowardice instead of generosity that makes us give tips.

Rogers, Will

34.

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

Proverb

35.

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

36.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

37.

Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

38.

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

Publilius Syrus

39.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van