Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

Best Quotes about Giving

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Bible

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

Mother Teresa

Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

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

Meltzer, Bernard

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Bible

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Give light and people will find their own way.

13.

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

14.

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

15.

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

Seneca

16.

If you continually give, you will continually have.

17.

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

18.

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

19.

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

Edwards, Flora

20.

You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

21.

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

Euripides

22.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

23.

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.

24.

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

25.

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

Rogers, Will

26.

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

27.

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

Rohn, Jim

28.

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

Proverb

29.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

30.

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

Anderson, Sparky

31.

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

32.

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

33.

You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

34.

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

Gide, Andre

35.

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

Young, Vash

36.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

37.

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

38.

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

Bunyan, John

39.

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

40.

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

Graham, Billy

41.

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

Lao-Tzu

42.

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

Johnson, Dave

43.

There is only one way to succeed in anything and that is to give everything. I do and I demand that my players do. Any man's finest hour is when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle... victorious.

Lombardi, Vince

44.

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.

45.

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

Andrus, Ethel Percy

46.

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

Collier, Robert

47.

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

Ross, Percy