Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

Best Quotes about Giving

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

If you continually give, you will continually have.

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

Gibbs, Philip

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

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

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

Bible

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

Reed, Scott

10.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Edwards, Flora

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

Rogers, Will

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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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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

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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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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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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

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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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The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

Charles Dudley Warner

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I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

23.

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.

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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

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He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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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

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The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

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Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

36.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Anderson, Sparky

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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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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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Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

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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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For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

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

Young, Vash

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Mckeun, Rod

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