Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Meltzer, Bernard

Best Quotes about Giving

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

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

Proverb

we make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

The more we give of anything, the more we shall get back.

Speare, Grace

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

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

Charles Dudley Warner

A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.

Publilius Syrus

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

12.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

13.

A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver.

Eleanor Hamilton

14.

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

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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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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

17.

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

Euripides

18.

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

Bible

19.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of oneself to others.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

20.

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

Lao-Tzu

21.

Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

22.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

23.

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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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

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

Johnson, Dave

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

Bunyan, John

28.

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

Graham, Billy

29.

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

Collier, Robert

30.

If you continually give, you will continually have.

31.

Give light and people will find their own way.

32.

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

Mother Teresa

33.

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

34.

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

Lao-Tzu

35.

The Liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself. [Proverbs 11.25]

Bible

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You must give to get, You must sow the seed, before you can reap the harvest.

Reed, Scott

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Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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

39.

You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

40.

For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

41.

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

John Wesley

42.

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

43.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

44.

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.

45.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

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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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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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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

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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