Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Mother Teresa

Best Quotes about Giving

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

Give light and people will find their own way.

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

Charles Dudley Warner

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

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

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

Anderson, Sparky

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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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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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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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He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

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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.

15.

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

Rogers, Will

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

Reed, Scott

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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

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

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You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

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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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The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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What you keep to yourself you lose, what you give away, you keep forever.

Munthe, Axel

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

Baughan, R.J.

26.

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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For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

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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 manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Collier, Robert

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

Virgil

43.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

44.

Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

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Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

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

P. D. James

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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