Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Williamson, Marianne

Best Quotes about Giving

we make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

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

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

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

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

It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.

Mother Teresa

For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

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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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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

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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.

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

Baughan, R.J.

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Let each one do just as he has purposed in his heart; not grudgingly or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver. [2 Corinthians 9:7]

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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 delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

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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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He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

19.

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

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

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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 gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them.

Mckeun, Rod

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

Proverb

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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

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

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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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The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

31.

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

Williamson, Marianne

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Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Meltzer, Bernard

34.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

35.

You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

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Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

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

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

P. D. James

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

Collier, Robert

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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

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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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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.

43.

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

44.

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

Speare, Grace

45.

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

Braunstein, Richard

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

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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

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

Virgil