Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Giving

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

Munthe, Axel

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Canfield, Jack

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

Gide, Andre

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Peters, Thomas J.

No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Gibbs, Philip

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Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Baughan, R.J.

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Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.

John Wesley

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Give light and people will find their own way.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Ross, Percy

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

Reed, Scott

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

Anderson, Sparky

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Proverb

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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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There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.

Sarton, May

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For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Rohn, Jim

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Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

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

Sheen, Fulton John

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

Speare, Grace

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

Graham, Billy

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There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

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Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

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Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Braunstein, Richard

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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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It is like the seed put in the soil -- the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Lao-Tzu

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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 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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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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