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

1.

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

2.

I have always noticed that a man who gives the most for the money, gets the most business.

Young, Vash

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

Lewis, C. S.

6.

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

7.

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

Munthe, Axel

8.

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

9.

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

10.

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

Ruskin, John

11.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

12.

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

Hobbs, Herschel

13.

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

Speare, Grace

14.

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

Edwards, Flora

15.

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

Bible

16.

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

17.

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

Gide, Andre

18.

Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

19.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

20.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

21.

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

Charles Dudley Warner

22.

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

23.

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

Bible

24.

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

Lao-Tzu

25.

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

26.

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.

27.

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

28.

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

Ross, Percy

29.

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

Camus, Albert

30.

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

31.

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

32.

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

Bible

33.

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

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

34.

You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

35.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

36.

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

Lao-Tzu

37.

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

Collier, Robert

38.

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

Rogers, Will

39.

If you continually give, you will continually have.

40.

He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

41.

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

42.

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

Graham, Billy

43.

A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.

Publilius Syrus

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

47.

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

48.

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

Baughan, R.J.

49.

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

Canfield, Jack