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

He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bunyan, John

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

Gibbs, Philip

Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

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

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

P. D. James

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

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

Eleanor Hamilton

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

Jackson, Jesse

10.

There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.

Euripides

11.

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

12.

Give a lot, expect a lot, and if you don't get it, prune.

Peters, Thomas J.

13.

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

Lewis, C. S.

14.

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

Baughan, R.J.

15.

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

Reed, Scott

16.

Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

17.

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

Gide, Andre

18.

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

Bible

19.

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

20.

The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.

Tracy, Brian

21.

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

22.

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

23.

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.

24.

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

Macewan, Norman

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

28.

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

30.

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

31.

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

Bible

32.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

33.

If you continually give, you will continually have.

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

38.

He that loveth, flieth, runneth, and rejoiceth. He is free, and cannot be held in. He giveth all for all, and hath all in all, because he resteth in one highest above all things, from whom all that is good flows and proceeds.

Kempis, Thomas

39.

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

43.

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

Speare, Grace

44.

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

45.

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

Rohn, Jim

46.

There never was a person who did anything worth doing, who did not receive more than he gave.

Beecher, Henry Ward

47.

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

Andrus, Ethel Percy

48.

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

Edwards, Flora

49.

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

50.

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

Rogers, Will