Motivational Quotes

Giving

The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them.

- Mckeun, Rod

Best Quotes about Giving

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

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

The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.

Baltasar Gracian

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

Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

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

P. D. James

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

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

Collier, Robert

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

Gide, Andre

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Williamson, Marianne

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Braunstein, Richard

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You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

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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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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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I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

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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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Sow much, reap much; sow little, reap little.

Proverb, Chinese

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Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them.

Mckeun, Rod

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

Baughan, R.J.

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Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Anderson, Sparky

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For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

32.

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

Proverb

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There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

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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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Trust not the horse, O Trojans. Be it what it may, I fear the Grecians even when they offer gifts.

Virgil

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

Ruskin, John

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

Lewis, C. S.

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Always think in terms of what the other person wants.