Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Westcott, Edward Noyes

Best Quotes about Giving

1.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

2.

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

Johnson, Dave

3.

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

4.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

5.

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

6.

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.

7.

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

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8.

Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

9.

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

Virgil

10.

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

11.

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

Baughan, R.J.

12.

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

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13.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

14.

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

Rogers, Will

15.

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

Lao-Tzu

16.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

17.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

18.

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

19.

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

Camus, Albert

20.

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

21.

If you continually give, you will continually have.

22.

He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

23.

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

24.

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

John Wesley

25.

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

26.

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

Munthe, Axel

27.

Give, and it shall be given to you. For whatever measure you deal out to others, it will be dealt to you in return.

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28.

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

29.

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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30.

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

31.

Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

32.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

33.

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

Canfield, Jack

34.

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

35.

The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.

Seneca

36.

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

Hobbs, Herschel

37.

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

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38.

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

39.

You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Euripides

44.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Anderson, Sparky

48.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

49.

Sow much, reap much; sow little, reap little.

Proverb, Chinese

50.

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