Motivational Quotes

Giving

He who gives while he lives, get to know where it goes.

- Ross, Percy

Best Quotes about Giving

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

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

Proverb

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

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

John Wesley

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

Gibbs, Philip

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Rogers, Will

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

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

Williamson, Marianne

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I have always noticed that a man who gives the most for the money, gets the most business.

Young, Vash

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

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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He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

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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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Sheen, Fulton John

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Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

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

Bible

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For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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we make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

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

Lao-Tzu

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Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

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There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

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

Gide, Andre

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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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If you continually give, you will continually have.

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

Anderson, Sparky

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Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

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He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Virgil

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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.

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

Bible

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

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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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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

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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

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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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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I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.