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

1.

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

Proverb

2.

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

Mckeun, Rod

3.

For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

4.

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

Gibbs, Philip

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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.

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Lao-Tzu

12.

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

13.

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

14.

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

Proverb, Chinese

15.

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

Speare, Grace

16.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

17.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

18.

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

19.

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

Macewan, Norman

20.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

21.

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

Braunstein, Richard

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

Collier, Robert

24.

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

P. D. James

25.

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

Anderson, Sparky

26.

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

John Wesley

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Bunyan, John

31.

You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

32.

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

33.

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

34.

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

35.

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

Gide, Andre

36.

Give light and people will find their own way.

37.

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

Williamson, Marianne

38.

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

Lao-Tzu

39.

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

40.

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

41.

If you continually give, you will continually have.

42.

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

Young, Vash

43.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

44.

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

Rohn, Jim

45.

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

46.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

47.

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

Ross, Percy

48.

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.

49.

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

Mother Teresa

50.

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

Munthe, Axel