Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

Best Quotes about Giving

You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

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

John Wesley

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Braunstein, Richard

The nine-tenths prove man's love, but the one-tenth tests man's legal obedience.

Hobbs, Herschel

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

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

Eleanor Hamilton

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

Speare, Grace

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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

11.

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

Camus, Albert

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

Charles Dudley Warner

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He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Lewis, C. S.

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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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17.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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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.

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For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

Seneca

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

Ross, Percy

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There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

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Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

24.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Jackson, Jesse

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Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

P. D. James

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

Munthe, Axel

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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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33.

Give and it shall be given unto you: good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over... [Luke 6:38]

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34.

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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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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Give light and people will find their own way.

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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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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

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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

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Sheen, Fulton John

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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

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Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

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

Johnson, Dave

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

Bunyan, John