Motivational Quotes

Giving

Give light and people will find their own way.

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Best Quotes about Giving

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

Graham, Billy

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Rogers, Will

There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.

Euripides

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

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

Hobbs, Herschel

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

Gide, Andre

10.

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

11.

Give and it shall be given unto you: good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over... [Luke 6:38]

Bible

12.

Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

13.

Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

14.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Proverb

16.

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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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

18.

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

P. D. James

19.

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

Gibbs, Philip

20.

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

Braunstein, Richard

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

22.

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

Ruskin, John

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He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

24.

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

Johnson, Dave

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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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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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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.

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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]

Bible

30.

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

31.

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

Mckeun, Rod

32.

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Lao-Tzu

38.

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

Young, Vash

40.

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

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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

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

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The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.

Seneca

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

Charles Dudley Warner

45.

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

46.

You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

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

Rohn, Jim

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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

50.

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

Sheen, Fulton John