Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

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Best Quotes about Giving

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

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

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

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

Bible

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

Gide, Andre

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

Mother Teresa

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

When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, while their present-giving instincts often remain in the undeveloped condition of their earlier days. Something showy and not-too-expensive in a shop is their only conception of the ideal gift.

Munro, Hector Hugh

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

P. D. James

10.

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

Rogers, Will

11.

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

12.

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

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

Rohn, Jim

14.

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

15.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

16.

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.

Robbins, Anthony

17.

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

18.

In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.

Edwards, Flora

19.

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

20.

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

21.

A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver.

Eleanor Hamilton

22.

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

Jackson, Jesse

23.

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

Lewis, C. S.

24.

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

Canfield, Jack

25.

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

26.

You must give to get, You must sow the seed, before you can reap the harvest.

Reed, Scott

27.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

28.

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

Munthe, Axel

29.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

30.

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

Baughan, R.J.

31.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

32.

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

Ruskin, John

33.

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

Braunstein, Richard

34.

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

35.

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

Ross, Percy

36.

If you continually give, you will continually have.

37.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

38.

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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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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

43.

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

44.

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

Anderson, Sparky

45.

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

Charles Dudley Warner

46.

He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

47.

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

Bible

48.

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

Bunyan, John

49.

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.

50.

The real secret of happiness is not what you have or what you receive; it's what you share