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

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

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

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

Andrus, Ethel Percy

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Bible

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

Bunyan, John

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

Charles Dudley Warner

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

P. D. James

10.

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

Hobbs, Herschel

11.

It is like the seed put in the soil -- the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

Marden, Orison Swett

12.

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

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Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

14.

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

15.

We must give more in order to get more, It is the generous giving of ourselves that produce the generous harvest.

Marden, Orison Swett

16.

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

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Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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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

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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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Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

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For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Canfield, Jack

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

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

Macewan, Norman

25.

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

John Wesley

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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.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Ruskin, John

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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

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

Jackson, Jesse

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The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

32.

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

Bible

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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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Giving half answers won't make the conversation half as long.

Johnson, Dave

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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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Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

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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

38.

You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

39.

God has given to all men free agency and has granted us the privilege to serve Him or serve Him not, to do that which is right or that which is wrong, but he will hold us strictly to an account for the use that we make of this agency.

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

Graham, Billy

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There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Sheen, Fulton John

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

Anderson, Sparky

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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

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Baughan, R.J.