Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

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Best Quotes about Giving

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

Ross, Percy

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

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

Gide, Andre

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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You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Charles Dudley Warner

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

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

P. D. James

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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

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Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

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

Mother Teresa

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

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Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

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

Proverb, Chinese

18.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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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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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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Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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

24.

For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

25.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

28.

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

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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

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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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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

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

Ruskin, John

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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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I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

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

Gibbs, Philip

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If you continually give, you will continually have.

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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

39.

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

Baughan, R.J.

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

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There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Lao-Tzu

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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

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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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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