Motivational Quotes

Giving

You must give to get, You must sow the seed, before you can reap the harvest.

- Reed, Scott

Best Quotes about Giving

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

Anderson, Sparky

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

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Virgil

If you continually give, you will continually have.

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Collier, Robert

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

10.

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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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

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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

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

John Wesley

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You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.

Albert Schweitzer

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

18.

You must give to get, You must sow the seed, before you can reap the harvest.

Reed, Scott

19.

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

20.

Give little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

Ruskin, John

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

Lao-Tzu

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Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

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Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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]

Bible

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Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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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.

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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

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

Graham, Billy

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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

31.

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

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

Proverb

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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

36.

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

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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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You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

39.

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

Publilius Syrus

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You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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