Motivational Quotes

Giving

Giving opens the way for receiving.

- Shinn, Florence Scovel

Best Quotes about Giving

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

Munthe, Axel

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

Hobbs, Herschel

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

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

Gibbs, Philip

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Williamson, Marianne

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]

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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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If you continually give, you will continually have.

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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

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You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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

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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

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

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

Canfield, Jack

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

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

Baughan, R.J.

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Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

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

Johnson, Dave

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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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I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

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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

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Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

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

Eleanor Hamilton

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

Lewis, C. S.

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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.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Edwards, Flora

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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

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

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Mckeun, Rod

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Give, and it shall be given to you. For whatever measure you deal out to others, it will be dealt to you in return.

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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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Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

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Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

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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

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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

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There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

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Giving is true having.