Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Macewan, Norman

Best Quotes about Giving

1.

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

2.

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

P. D. James

3.

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

Proverb, Chinese

4.

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

5.

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

Gibbs, Philip

6.

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

7.

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

Robbins, Anthony

8.

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

9.

You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

10.

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

Johnson, Dave

11.

It is like the seed put in the soil -- the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

Marden, Orison Swett

12.

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

Euripides

13.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

14.

Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

15.

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

Gide, Andre

16.

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

Graham, Billy

17.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

18.

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

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

19.

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

Mother Teresa

20.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

21.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

22.

For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

23.

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

24.

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.

25.

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

Ruskin, John

26.

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

Publilius Syrus

27.

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

28.

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

Jackson, Jesse

29.

Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

30.

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

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.

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

34.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

35.

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

36.

You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.

Albert Schweitzer

37.

The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.

Tracy, Brian

38.

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

39.

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

Munthe, Axel

40.

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord