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

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

Collier, Robert

To whom much is given is much required. [Luke 12:48]

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

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

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

You can no more give what you haven't learned than you can come back from a place you've never been.

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.

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

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

Rogers, Will

10.

For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

11.

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

Young, Vash

12.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

Lao-Tzu

15.

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

Euripides

16.

Nature does not give to those who will not spend...

Baughan, R.J.

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

24.

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

25.

If I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed.

Williamson, Marianne

26.

Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

27.

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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28.

You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

29.

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

30.

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

31.

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

32.

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

33.

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

Edwards, Flora

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

Mother Teresa

38.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

39.

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

40.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

41.

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

Ross, Percy

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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

43.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

44.

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

45.

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

Graham, Billy

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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

47.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

48.

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

Charles Dudley Warner

49.

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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Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van