Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Giving

Let me be a little kinder, Let me be a little blinder To the faults about me; Let me praise a little more, Let me be, when I am weary; Just a little bit more cheery, Let me serve a little better Those that I am striving for. Let me be a little braver When temptation bids me waver, Let me strive a little harder To be all that I should be; Let me be a little meeker to the brother that is weaker; Let me think more of my neighbor and a little less of me.

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

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

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

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

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

Gide, Andre

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

Reed, Scott

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

Munthe, Axel

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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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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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There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

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

Macewan, Norman

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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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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 opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, 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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Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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If you continually give, you will continually have.

26.

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

Charles Dudley Warner

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You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Johnson, Dave

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

John Wesley

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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 it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.

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

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

Canfield, Jack

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

Bible

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

Sheen, Fulton John

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He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

Lao-Tzu

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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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The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.

Andrus, Ethel Percy

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

Mother Teresa

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

Publilius Syrus