Motivational Quotes

Giving

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

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Best Quotes about Giving

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Before he left, Aunt William pressed a sovereign into his hand guiltily, as if it were conscience money. He, on his side, took it as though it were a doctor's fee, and both ignored the transaction.

Leverson, Ada

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

If you continually give, you will continually have.

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

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

Euripides

11.

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

12.

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

John Wesley

13.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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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

16.

It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.

Mother Teresa

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Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

18.

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

Proverb, Chinese

19.

For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

20.

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

21.

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

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

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Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

25.

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

Lao-Tzu

28.

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

Gide, Andre

29.

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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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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Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

32.

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

33.

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

Ruskin, John

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You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hobbs, Herschel

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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

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

Ross, Percy

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Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

40.

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

41.

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

42.

we make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

43.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

44.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

45.

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

Gibbs, Philip

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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

48.

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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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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Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon