Motivational Quotes

Giving

Giving is true having.

- Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Best Quotes about Giving

1.

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

Charles Dudley Warner

2.

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

Gide, Andre

3.

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

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4.

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

5.

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.

Robbins, Anthony

6.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

7.

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

8.

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

Speare, Grace

9.

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

10.

You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give.

11.

If you continually give, you will continually have.

12.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

13.

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

Young, Vash

14.

Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

15.

For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

16.

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

Ross, Percy

17.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

18.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

19.

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

Rohn, Jim

20.

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

Baughan, R.J.

21.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

22.

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

P. D. James

23.

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

24.

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

25.

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

Mother Teresa

26.

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

Rogers, Will

27.

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

28.

Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

29.

Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

30.

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

Andrus, Ethel Percy

31.

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

32.

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

Ruskin, John

33.

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

34.

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

35.

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

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36.

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Munthe, Axel

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Canfield, Jack

46.

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

47.

We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.