Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Giving

Give, and it shall be given to you. For whatever measure you deal out to others, it will be dealt to you in return.

Bible

If you continually give, you will continually have.

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

Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

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

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

Proverb

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

Ruskin, John

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

10.

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

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Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

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You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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

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

P. D. James

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

Speare, Grace

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Do unto the other feller the way he'd like to do unto you, and do it fast.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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

Lewis, C. S.

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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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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 only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

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For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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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 have to sow before you can reap. You have to give before you can get.

Collier, Robert

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

Euripides

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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

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Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

28.

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

Bunyan, John

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

Bible

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

Young, Vash

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Gibbs, Philip

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You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

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

41.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

42.

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

Hobbs, Herschel

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There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

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

Canfield, Jack

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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.