Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

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Best Quotes about Giving

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

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

Charles Dudley Warner

Giving half answers won't make the conversation half as long.

Johnson, Dave

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

There is only one way to succeed in anything and that is to give everything. I do and I demand that my players do. Any man's finest hour is when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle... victorious.

Lombardi, Vince

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

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

Sheen, Fulton John

EARN as much as you can. SAVE as much as you can. INVEST as much as you can. GIVE as much as you can.

Wellesly, Rev. John

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

Eleanor Hamilton

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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.

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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

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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

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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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There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.

Euripides

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

Baughan, R.J.

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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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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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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

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You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

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

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Bible

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Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

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The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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

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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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There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

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If you continually give, you will continually have.

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The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

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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

33.

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

Collier, Robert

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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.

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The nine-tenths prove man's love, but the one-tenth tests man's legal obedience.

Hobbs, Herschel

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Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

38.

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

P. D. James

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

Braunstein, Richard

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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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Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.