Motivational Quotes

Giving

Giving is true having.

- Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Best Quotes about Giving

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

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

Williamson, Marianne

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.

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

Publilius Syrus

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

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

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

You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb

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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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Give light and people will find their own way.

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

Johnson, Dave

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Braunstein, Richard

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

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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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Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Virgil

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

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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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Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

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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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He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

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

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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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Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

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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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If you continually give, you will continually have.

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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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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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He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

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You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

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A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Speare, Grace

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

Rohn, Jim

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

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Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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