Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Speare, Grace

Best Quotes about Giving

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

Lao-Tzu

Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Graham, Billy

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

Meltzer, Bernard

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Munthe, Axel

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

Charles Dudley Warner

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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Mother Teresa

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

Reed, Scott

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

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

Gide, Andre

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

Ross, Percy

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Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

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The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

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

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Give light and people will find their own way.

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Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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What we are doing is satisfying the American public. That's our job. I always say we have to give most of the people what they want most of the time. That's what they expect from us.

Paley, William

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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 is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

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

Gibbs, Philip

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

Baughan, R.J.

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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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You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Rogers, Will

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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

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

Macewan, Norman

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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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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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He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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God has given to all men free agency and has granted us the privilege to serve Him or serve Him not, to do that which is right or that which is wrong, but he will hold us strictly to an account for the use that we make of this agency.

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You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

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

Proverb, Chinese