Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Giving

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

Canfield, Jack

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

Publilius Syrus

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Eleanor Hamilton

You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

10.

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

Lao-Tzu

11.

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

12.

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

13.

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

Andrus, Ethel Percy

14.

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

Rohn, Jim

15.

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

16.

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

Edwards, Flora

17.

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

Bible

18.

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

Camus, Albert

19.

He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

20.

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

21.

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

John Wesley

22.

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

23.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

24.

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

Johnson, Dave

25.

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

Robbins, Anthony

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Mother Teresa

29.

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

Gibbs, Philip

30.

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

31.

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

32.

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

Bible

33.

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

34.

You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

35.

Give little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

Ruskin, John

36.

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

37.

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

Reed, Scott

38.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

39.

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

Braunstein, Richard

40.

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.

41.

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

42.

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

43.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

44.

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

45.

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

46.

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

Munthe, Axel

47.

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

Virgil

48.

The trick is to realize that after giving your best, there's nothing more to give.

Anderson, Sparky

49.

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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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