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

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

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

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

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

Braunstein, Richard

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

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He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

15.

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

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

Anderson, Sparky

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

Mother Teresa

19.

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

20.

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

Bible

21.

If you continually give, you will continually have.

22.

Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

23.

Give light and people will find their own way.

24.

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

25.

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 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

27.

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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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

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

Lao-Tzu

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There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

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

Gibbs, Philip

33.

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

Gide, Andre

34.

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

John Wesley

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

Proverb, Chinese

36.

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

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We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.

La Fontaine, Jean De

38.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

42.

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

43.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

45.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

46.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

Lao-Tzu

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

Baughan, R.J.

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

Young, Vash