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

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

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

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

Anderson, Sparky

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

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Johnson, Dave

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

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

John Wesley

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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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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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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A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.

Jackson, Jesse

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

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You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

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The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

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

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

Baughan, R.J.

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

Rogers, Will

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

Young, Vash

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The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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

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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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You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Bible

31.

You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Euripides

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Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Bible

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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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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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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 doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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