Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Best Quotes about Giving

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

Ruskin, John

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

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

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

Baughan, R.J.

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

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

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

Ross, Percy

10.

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

Proverb

11.

He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

12.

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

Young, Vash

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

Lao-Tzu

15.

It is like the seed put in the soil -- the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

Marden, Orison Swett

16.

What you keep to yourself you lose, what you give away, you keep forever.

Munthe, Axel

17.

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

Charles Dudley Warner

18.

We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.

La Fontaine, Jean De

19.

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

Graham, Billy

20.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

21.

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

Braunstein, Richard

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

24.

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

Publilius Syrus

25.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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 opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

28.

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.

29.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

30.

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

Williamson, Marianne

31.

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

John Wesley

32.

If you continually give, you will continually have.

33.

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

34.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

35.

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

36.

Give light and people will find their own way.

37.

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

Edwards, Flora

38.

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

Mckeun, Rod

39.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

40.

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

41.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

42.

You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Collier, Robert

47.

Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

48.

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

Anderson, Sparky

49.

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

50.

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