Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Publilius Syrus

Best Quotes about Giving

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Lao-Tzu

For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Andrus, Ethel Percy

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

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

John Wesley

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

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

Bible

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

Johnson, Dave

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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

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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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The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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

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You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Gide, Andre

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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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Give light and people will find their own way.

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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

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Proverb, Chinese

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If you continually give, you will continually have.

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

Eleanor Hamilton

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

Bible

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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

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

Hobbs, Herschel

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

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Canfield, Jack

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It is more blessed to give than to receive. [Acts 20:35]

Bible

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

Jackson, Jesse

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Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Camus, Albert

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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.