Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

Best Quotes about Giving

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

Lao-Tzu

The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.

Andrus, Ethel Percy

I have always noticed that a man who gives the most for the money, gets the most business.

Young, Vash

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

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

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

Proverb

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

10.

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.

11.

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

Graham, Billy

13.

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

14.

You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

15.

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.

Camus, Albert

16.

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

17.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

18.

If you continually give, you will continually have.

19.

The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them.

Mckeun, Rod

20.

He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

21.

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

Baughan, R.J.

22.

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

Eleanor Hamilton

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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

24.

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

25.

He who gives while he lives, get to know where it goes.

Ross, Percy

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

Charles Dudley Warner

27.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Lao-Tzu

32.

You can no more give what you haven't learned than you can come back from a place you've never been.

33.

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

P. D. James

34.

You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give.

35.

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

Canfield, Jack

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

Gide, Andre

37.

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

38.

You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

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

Euripides

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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

41.

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

Macewan, Norman

42.

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

Jackson, Jesse

43.

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

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