Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

Best Quotes about Giving

1.

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

2.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

3.

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

Reed, Scott

4.

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

Andrus, Ethel Percy

5.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

6.

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

7.

The real secret of happiness is not what you have or what you receive; it's what you share

8.

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

9.

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

Eleanor Hamilton

10.

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

Rohn, Jim

11.

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

Bible

12.

Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

13.

He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

Lao-Tzu

14.

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

Charles Dudley Warner

15.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

16.

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

17.

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

18.

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

Munthe, Axel

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Give light and people will find their own way.

22.

All that this world knows of living lies in giving -- and more giving; He that keeps, be sure he loses -Friendship grows by what it uses.

Maclaren, Alexander

23.

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

Mckeun, Rod

24.

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

25.

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

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

26.

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

27.

It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.

Mother Teresa

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

31.

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

Gide, Andre

32.

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

Hobbs, Herschel

33.

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

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34.

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

35.

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

Williamson, Marianne

36.

The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.

Baltasar Gracian

37.

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

38.

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

Euripides

39.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

40.

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

41.

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

Publilius Syrus

42.

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

Bible

43.

When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.

44.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

45.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

46.

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

47.

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

Graham, Billy

48.

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

Proverb, Chinese

49.

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

50.

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