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

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

John Wesley

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

Braunstein, Richard

Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

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Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Meltzer, Bernard

10.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

11.

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 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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Give, and it shall be given to you. For whatever measure you deal out to others, it will be dealt to you in return.

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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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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

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

Ruskin, John

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

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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.

21.

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

Proverb

22.

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

Gibbs, Philip

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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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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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There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

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If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

Lao-Tzu

29.

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

Collier, Robert

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

Johnson, Dave

31.

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

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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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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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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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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]

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

P. D. James

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

Canfield, Jack

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

Hobbs, Herschel

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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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Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

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

Reed, Scott

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

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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 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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Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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