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

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Marden, Orison Swett

We must give more in order to get more, It is the generous giving of ourselves that produce the generous harvest.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Hobbs, Herschel

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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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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

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

Young, Vash

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

17.

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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 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

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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

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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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You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

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

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

Speare, Grace

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

Johnson, Dave

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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Lewis, C. S.

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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

35.

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

John Wesley

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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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The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

38.

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.

39.

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

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The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them.

Mckeun, Rod

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

Gibbs, Philip

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

Baughan, R.J.

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Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James 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

49.

You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb