Motivational Quotes

Giving

Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

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Best Quotes about Giving

Give, and it shall be given to you. For whatever measure you deal out to others, it will be dealt to you in return.

Bible

If you continually give, you will continually have.

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

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

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

Proverb

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

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.

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

Bible

The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.

Andrus, Ethel Percy

10.

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

Gide, Andre

11.

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

12.

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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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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He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.

Bunyan, John

15.

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

Speare, Grace

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

Publilius Syrus

17.

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

18.

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

19.

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

P. D. James

20.

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

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

Collier, Robert

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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

23.

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

24.

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

25.

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

Mother Teresa

26.

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

27.

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

Munthe, Axel

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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

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Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

30.

To whom much is given is much required. [Luke 12:48]

Bible

31.

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

Camus, Albert

32.

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

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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

34.

Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

35.

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

Bible

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There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

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

Charles Dudley Warner

38.

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

Anderson, Sparky

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I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.

Lewis, C. S.

40.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

45.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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]

Bible

47.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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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

50.

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