Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- P. D. James

Best Quotes about Giving

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

Hobbs, Herschel

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

Williamson, Marianne

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Graham, Billy

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

For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

Do unto the other feller the way he'd like to do unto you, and do it fast.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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

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

P. D. James

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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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

15.

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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Let each one do just as he has purposed in his heart; not grudgingly or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver. [2 Corinthians 9:7]

Bible

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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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Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Bible

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

Bunyan, John

22.

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 manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

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Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

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You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

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

Mother Teresa

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Charles Dudley Warner

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Sheen, Fulton John

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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

34.

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

Collier, Robert

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The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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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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You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

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