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

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

Munthe, Axel

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

One man gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want. [Proverbs 11-24]

Bible

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

Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

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

Baughan, R.J.

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

10.

In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.

Edwards, Flora

11.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

12.

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

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.

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

Camus, Albert

15.

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

Gide, Andre

16.

When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

17.

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

Eleanor Hamilton

18.

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

19.

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

Graham, Billy

20.

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

21.

Give light and people will find their own way.

22.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

23.

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

John Wesley

24.

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

25.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

26.

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

Macewan, Norman

27.

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Trust not the horse, O Trojans. Be it what it may, I fear the Grecians even when they offer gifts.

Virgil

32.

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

33.

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

Young, Vash

34.

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

35.

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

Proverb, Chinese

36.

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

37.

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

38.

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.

Addison, Joseph

39.

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

Andrus, Ethel Percy

40.

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

Bunyan, John

41.

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

42.

You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

43.

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

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

44.

We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving

Meltzer, Bernard

45.

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

46.

If you continually give, you will continually have.

47.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

48.

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

Mckeun, Rod

49.

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

50.

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.