Motivational Quotes

Giving

The big print giveth, and the fine print taketh away.

- Sheen, Fulton John

Best Quotes about Giving

1.

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

2.

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

3.

You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

4.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

5.

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

Ross, Percy

6.

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

Bible

7.

If you continually give, you will continually have.

8.

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

Proverb

9.

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

10.

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

Lao-Tzu

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Eleanor Hamilton

14.

For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

15.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

16.

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

17.

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

Munthe, Axel

18.

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

Gide, Andre

19.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

20.

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

21.

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

22.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

23.

I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.

Lewis, C. S.

24.

Giving half answers won't make the conversation half as long.

Johnson, Dave

25.

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

Charles Dudley Warner

26.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

27.

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

28.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

29.

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

Young, Vash

30.

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

31.

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

Graham, Billy

32.

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

Speare, Grace

33.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

34.

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

35.

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

Mckeun, Rod

36.

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

37.

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

38.

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

39.

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

Canfield, Jack

40.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

41.

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

42.

You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

43.

Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Virgil

47.

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

Euripides

48.

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

49.

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

Hobbs, Herschel

50.

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