Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

Best Quotes about Giving

1.

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

2.

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

Speare, Grace

3.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

4.

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

5.

EARN as much as you can. SAVE as much as you can. INVEST as much as you can. GIVE as much as you can.

Wellesly, Rev. John

6.

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

Rogers, Will

7.

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

8.

Give light and people will find their own way.

9.

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

10.

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

Lao-Tzu

11.

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

Baughan, R.J.

12.

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

Young, Vash

13.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

14.

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

Andrus, Ethel Percy

15.

You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

16.

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

John Wesley

17.

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

18.

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

Macewan, Norman

19.

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

Anderson, Sparky

20.

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

21.

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

Braunstein, Richard

22.

Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Collier, Robert

27.

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

Lewis, C. S.

28.

No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.

Angelis, Barbara De

29.

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

30.

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

Williamson, Marianne

31.

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

32.

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

Lao-Tzu

33.

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

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

34.

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

Proverb

35.

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.

36.

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

Robbins, Anthony

37.

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

38.

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

Camus, Albert

39.

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

Proverb, Chinese

40.

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Rohn, Jim

45.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

46.

He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

47.

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