Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Williamson, Marianne

Best Quotes about Giving

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

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

Braunstein, Richard

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

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

Speare, Grace

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

Macewan, Norman

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

Gide, Andre

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

Hobbs, Herschel

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

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

P. D. James

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

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Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

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Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

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

Johnson, Dave

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

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

Canfield, Jack

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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 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

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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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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The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.

Baltasar Gracian

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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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Give light and people will find their own way.

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

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35.

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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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

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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

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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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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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I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

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

Lao-Tzu

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

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

John Wesley

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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

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He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Mother Teresa

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Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

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He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

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You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold