Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Publilius Syrus

Best Quotes about Giving

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

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

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

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

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Virgil

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

10.

You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

11.

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

12.

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

13.

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

Munthe, Axel

14.

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

Baughan, R.J.

15.

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

16.

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

Mckeun, Rod

17.

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

Williamson, Marianne

18.

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

19.

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

Johnson, Dave

20.

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

Robbins, Anthony

21.

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

22.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

23.

Give and it shall be given unto you: good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over... [Luke 6:38]

Bible

24.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

25.

You must give to get, You must sow the seed, before you can reap the harvest.

Reed, Scott

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Braunstein, Richard

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

35.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

36.

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

Speare, Grace

37.

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

38.

I wonder if it isn't just cowardice instead of generosity that makes us give tips.

Rogers, Will

39.

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

40.

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

Bible

41.

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

Lewis, C. S.

42.

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

43.

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

Lao-Tzu

44.

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.

45.

To whom much is given is much required. [Luke 12:48]

Bible

46.

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

Euripides

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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.

50.

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van