Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

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Best Quotes about Giving

1.

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

2.

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

Ruskin, John

3.

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

4.

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

5.

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

Braunstein, Richard

6.

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

Anderson, Sparky

7.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

8.

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

9.

For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

10.

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

11.

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

Rogers, Will

12.

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

13.

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

Jackson, Jesse

14.

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

Charles Dudley Warner

15.

Trust not the horse, O Trojans. Be it what it may, I fear the Grecians even when they offer gifts.

Virgil

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

19.

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

20.

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

Canfield, Jack

21.

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

Camus, Albert

22.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

23.

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

John Wesley

24.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

25.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

26.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Munthe, Axel

30.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

31.

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

32.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

33.

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

Lao-Tzu

34.

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

Gibbs, Philip

35.

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

Collier, Robert

36.

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

Proverb

37.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

38.

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

39.

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

Bible

40.

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

Graham, Billy

41.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of oneself to others.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

42.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

43.

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

44.

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

45.

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

Reed, Scott

46.

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

47.

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

Lewis, C. S.