Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

Best Quotes about Giving

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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

Bible

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

Virgil

One man gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want. [Proverbs 11-24]

Bible

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Young, Vash

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

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

Ruskin, John

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

Munthe, Axel

10.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

11.

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

Andrus, Ethel Percy

12.

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

Bunyan, John

13.

To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

14.

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

15.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

16.

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

Ross, Percy

17.

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

Rohn, Jim

18.

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

Edwards, Flora

19.

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

Lao-Tzu

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.

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

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We must give more in order to get more, It is the generous giving of ourselves that produce the generous harvest.

Marden, Orison Swett

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He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

24.

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Williamson, Marianne

26.

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

Gibbs, Philip

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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

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

P. D. James

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

30.

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

Canfield, Jack

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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

32.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

33.

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

34.

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

Jackson, Jesse

35.

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

Lao-Tzu

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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

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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

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Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

39.

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

40.

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

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

43.

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

Bible

44.

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

47.

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

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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

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

Publilius Syrus