Motivational Quotes

Giving

Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

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Best Quotes about Giving

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

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

P. D. James

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

John Wesley

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

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

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Gide, Andre

For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

10.

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

Ruskin, John

11.

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

12.

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

Williamson, Marianne

13.

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

14.

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

Baughan, R.J.

15.

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

Canfield, Jack

16.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

17.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

18.

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

Anderson, Sparky

19.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of oneself to others.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

20.

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

Publilius Syrus

21.

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.

Camus, Albert

22.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

23.

If you continually give, you will continually have.

24.

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

25.

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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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

27.

You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

28.

You can no more give what you haven't learned than you can come back from a place you've never been.

29.

You have to sow before you can reap. You have to give before you can get.

Collier, Robert

30.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

31.

Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

32.

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

33.

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

Jackson, Jesse

34.

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

35.

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

36.

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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

38.

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

Charles Dudley Warner

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Lewis, C. S.

42.

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

43.

You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

44.

One man gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want. [Proverbs 11-24]

Bible

45.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

46.

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

Hobbs, Herschel

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

Bible

49.

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

Lao-Tzu