Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Publilius Syrus

Best Quotes about Giving

1.

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

Munthe, Axel

2.

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

3.

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

Publilius Syrus

4.

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

5.

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

Rohn, Jim

6.

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

Virgil

7.

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

8.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

9.

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

Bunyan, John

10.

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

11.

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

12.

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

Mckeun, Rod

13.

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

Lewis, C. S.

14.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

15.

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

Braunstein, Richard

16.

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

17.

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

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

18.

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

Collier, Robert

19.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

20.

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

21.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

22.

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

Lao-Tzu

23.

You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Gibbs, Philip

27.

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.

28.

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

29.

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

P. D. James

30.

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

31.

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

Camus, Albert

32.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

33.

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

Williamson, Marianne

34.

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

Baughan, R.J.

35.

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

36.

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

37.

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

38.

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

Speare, Grace

39.

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

Jackson, Jesse

40.

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

Mother Teresa

41.

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

Edwards, Flora

42.

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

43.

You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

44.

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

45.

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

Johnson, Dave

46.

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

47.

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

48.

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

49.

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

50.

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