Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Giving

1.

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

2.

Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

3.

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

4.

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.

5.

If I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed.

Williamson, Marianne

6.

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

Graham, Billy

7.

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

Gibbs, Philip

8.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

9.

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

10.

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

Speare, Grace

11.

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

Bible

12.

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

16.

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

Bible

17.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

18.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

19.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

20.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

21.

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

22.

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

P. D. James

23.

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

Baughan, R.J.

24.

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

Proverb

25.

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

Camus, Albert

26.

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

Bible

27.

Give light and people will find their own way.

28.

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

Reed, Scott

29.

Do unto the other feller the way he'd like to do unto you, and do it fast.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Bunyan, John

34.

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

Eleanor Hamilton

35.

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

Virgil

36.

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

Edwards, Flora

37.

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

Braunstein, Richard

38.

Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting.

Meltzer, Bernard

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Lao-Tzu

42.

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

Charles Dudley Warner

43.

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

44.

If you continually give, you will continually have.