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

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Graham, Billy

You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

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

Sheen, Fulton John

One man gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want. [Proverbs 11-24]

Bible

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

Braunstein, Richard

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Lao-Tzu

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

10.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

11.

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

Lewis, C. S.

12.

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

Andrus, Ethel Percy

13.

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

14.

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

15.

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

Collier, Robert

16.

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

17.

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

Speare, Grace

18.

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

Hobbs, Herschel

19.

For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

20.

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

Robbins, Anthony

21.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

22.

Why is it no one ever sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get one perfect rose.

Parker, Dorothy

23.

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]

Bible

24.

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.

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Ross, Percy

28.

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

29.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

30.

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

31.

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

Bible

32.

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

33.

I wonder if it isn't just cowardice instead of generosity that makes us give tips.

Rogers, Will

34.

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

35.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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.

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

38.

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

Johnson, Dave

39.

You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give.

40.

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

Canfield, Jack

41.

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

Charles Dudley Warner

42.

If you continually give, you will continually have.

43.

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

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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

45.

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

46.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

47.

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

Gibbs, Philip

48.

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 trick is to realize that after giving your best, there's nothing more to give.