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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

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

You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Virgil

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

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.

Andrus, Ethel Percy

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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

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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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

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

Munthe, Axel

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

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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

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

Anderson, Sparky

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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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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

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The Liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself. [Proverbs 11.25]

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Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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

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

Sheen, Fulton John

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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

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Charles Dudley Warner

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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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

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Give light and people will find their own way.

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Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

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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

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

Camus, Albert

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

Graham, Billy

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Euripides

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

Johnson, Dave

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

P. D. James

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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

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Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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

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The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre