Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Mother Teresa

Best Quotes about Giving

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

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

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

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

You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

Gifts allow us to demonstrate exactly how little we know about a person. And nothing pisses a person off more than being shoved into the wrong pigeonhole.

Pam Davis

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One man gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want. [Proverbs 11-24]

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11.

Why is it no one ever sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get one perfect rose.

Parker, Dorothy

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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

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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.

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

Euripides

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

Baughan, R.J.

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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

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

Braunstein, Richard

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

Speare, Grace

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The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

Ford, Henry

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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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The nine-tenths prove man's love, but the one-tenth tests man's legal obedience.

Hobbs, Herschel

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

Macewan, Norman

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

Publilius Syrus

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The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

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When you're nice to people, they want to be nice back to you.

Canfield, Jack

31.

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

John Wesley

32.

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

Rogers, Will

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Graham, Billy

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Give light and people will find their own way.

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

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

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Proverb

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

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Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

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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.

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Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

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You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon