Motivational Quotes

Giving

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

- Benjamin, Walter

Best Quotes about Giving

1.

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

2.

He who gives while he lives, get to know where it goes.

Ross, Percy

3.

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

4.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

5.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

6.

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

7.

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

Andrus, Ethel Percy

8.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

9.

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

10.

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

Lao-Tzu

11.

Give light and people will find their own way.

12.

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

13.

A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver.

Eleanor Hamilton

14.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

15.

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

Jackson, Jesse

16.

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

P. D. James

17.

A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of forests. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high.

Macleod, Fiona

18.

If you continually give, you will continually have.

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Charles Dudley Warner

23.

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

Johnson, Dave

24.

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

Graham, Billy

25.

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

26.

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

Bible

27.

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

Proverb, Chinese

28.

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

Bible

29.

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

30.

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

31.

A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.

Publilius Syrus

32.

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

Proverb

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

35.

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

Lao-Tzu

36.

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

Gide, Andre

37.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

38.

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

39.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

40.

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

41.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

42.

Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

43.

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

Camus, Albert

44.

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.

45.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

46.

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

Euripides

47.

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

48.

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

Mother Teresa

49.

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

50.

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