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

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

Gibbs, Philip

When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Give light and people will find their own way.

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

Collier, Robert

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.

Edwards, Flora

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Ruskin, John

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

Johnson, Dave

12.

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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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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Give a lot, expect a lot, and if you don't get it, prune.

Peters, Thomas J.

15.

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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I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.

Lewis, C. S.

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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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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

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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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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

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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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Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.

Rohn, Jim

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

Lewis, C. S.

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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.

27.

When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.

28.

It is more blessed to give than to receive. [Acts 20:35]

Bible

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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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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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I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

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

Publilius Syrus

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He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Munthe, Axel

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Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

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

Bible

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

P. D. James

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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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You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Ross, Percy

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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

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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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He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Eleanor Hamilton

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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