Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Young, Vash

Best Quotes about Giving

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

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

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

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

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Virgil

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Bible

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

Rogers, Will

10.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

11.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

12.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

13.

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

Lewis, C. S.

14.

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

Baughan, R.J.

15.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

16.

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

Bible

17.

If you continually give, you will continually have.

18.

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

Speare, Grace

19.

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

20.

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

21.

It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.

Gibbs, Philip

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Charles Dudley Warner

25.

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

Proverb

26.

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

Lao-Tzu

27.

You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give.

28.

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

Jackson, Jesse

29.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

30.

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

Proverb, Chinese

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Andrus, Ethel Percy

34.

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

Munthe, Axel

35.

He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

36.

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

Bible

37.

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

38.

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

39.

Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

40.

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

41.

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

Euripides

42.

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

43.

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

Anderson, Sparky

44.

Give light and people will find their own way.

45.

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

Macewan, Norman

46.

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

47.

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

Braunstein, Richard

48.

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

49.

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

Bible

50.

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord