Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Giving

1.

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

Johnson, Dave

2.

There is only one way to succeed in anything and that is to give everything. I do and I demand that my players do. Any man's finest hour is when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle... victorious.

Lombardi, Vince

3.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

4.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

5.

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

6.

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

7.

Give, and it shall be given to you. For whatever measure you deal out to others, it will be dealt to you in return.

Bible

8.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

9.

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

10.

If you continually give, you will continually have.

11.

He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

12.

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

Bunyan, John

13.

Give light and people will find their own way.

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Camus, Albert

17.

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

Lao-Tzu

18.

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

Lewis, C. S.

19.

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

20.

You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

21.

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

Mckeun, Rod

22.

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

Hobbs, Herschel

23.

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

24.

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

25.

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

26.

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

Gide, Andre

27.

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

Jackson, Jesse

28.

There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.

Euripides

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.

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

31.

You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

32.

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.

33.

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

34.

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

Munthe, Axel

35.

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

Bible

36.

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

Braunstein, Richard

37.

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

38.

Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

39.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

40.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

41.

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

Andrus, Ethel Percy

42.

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

43.

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

Canfield, Jack

44.

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

45.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

46.

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

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De