Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Best Quotes about Giving

Before he left, Aunt William pressed a sovereign into his hand guiltily, as if it were conscience money. He, on his side, took it as though it were a doctor's fee, and both ignored the transaction.

Leverson, Ada

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

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

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

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

Eleanor Hamilton

10.

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

Virgil

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

14.

Give light and people will find their own way.

15.

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

16.

You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

17.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

18.

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

19.

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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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EARN as much as you can. SAVE as much as you can. INVEST as much as you can. GIVE as much as you can.

Wellesly, Rev. John

24.

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

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25.

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

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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

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

Young, Vash

28.

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

Proverb

29.

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

Publilius Syrus

30.

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

31.

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

Hobbs, Herschel

32.

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

33.

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

34.

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

35.

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

36.

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

Bunyan, John

37.

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

Andrus, Ethel Percy

38.

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

39.

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

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40.

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

41.

He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

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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