Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

Best Quotes about Giving

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

Bible

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

Eleanor Hamilton

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

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

Bible

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

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

Meltzer, Bernard

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

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

Canfield, Jack

10.

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

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

13.

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.

Robbins, Anthony

14.

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

Williamson, Marianne

16.

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

Lewis, C. S.

17.

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.

18.

You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

19.

For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

20.

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

Bible

21.

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

22.

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

23.

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

24.

If you continually give, you will continually have.

25.

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

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

26.

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

Baughan, R.J.

27.

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

28.

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

29.

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

30.

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

Euripides

31.

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

32.

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

Publilius Syrus

33.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

34.

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

35.

The big print giveth, and the fine print taketh away.

Sheen, Fulton John

36.

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

37.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

38.

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

39.

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

Rogers, Will

40.

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

41.

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

Rohn, Jim

42.

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

Gide, Andre

43.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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Give, and it shall be given to you. For whatever measure you deal out to others, it will be dealt to you in return.