Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

Best Quotes about Giving

Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

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

There would be no advantage to be gained by sowing a field of wheat if the harvest did not return more than was sown.

Hill, Napoleon

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Camus, Albert

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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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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.

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

Johnson, Dave

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You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

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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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You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

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The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Proverb

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

Andrus, Ethel Percy

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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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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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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

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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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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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

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While you have a thing it can be taken from you... but when you give it, you have given it. No robber can take it from you. It is yours then for ever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.

Joyce, James

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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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Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

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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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When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.

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It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.

Gibbs, Philip

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Publilius Syrus

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We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

Seneca

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

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

John Wesley

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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

Baughan, R.J.

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

P. D. James