Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Speare, Grace

Best Quotes about Giving

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

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Proverb, Chinese

we make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

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

Lao-Tzu

I wonder if it isn't just cowardice instead of generosity that makes us give tips.

Rogers, Will

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

Gibbs, Philip

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

Gide, Andre

Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

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

Baughan, R.J.

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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

11.

You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

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

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

Andrus, Ethel Percy

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

Charles Dudley Warner

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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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

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

Lao-Tzu

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

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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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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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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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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

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The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

26.

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

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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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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

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

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

Anderson, Sparky

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

Bible

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

Young, Vash

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Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Ruskin, John

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

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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.

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

Braunstein, Richard

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Hobbs, Herschel

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Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

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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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If you continually give, you will continually have.

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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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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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47.

You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Euripides

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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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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