Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- John Wesley

Best Quotes about Giving

For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

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

Ruskin, John

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

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Canfield, Jack

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

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

Young, Vash

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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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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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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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You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

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

Rogers, Will

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He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

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

Munthe, Axel

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Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Anderson, Sparky

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

Johnson, Dave

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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

28.

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 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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It is like the seed put in the soil -- the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Lao-Tzu

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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

33.

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

Baughan, R.J.

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

Charles Dudley Warner

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

Euripides

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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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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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The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

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Give light and people will find their own way.

41.

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

42.

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

Jackson, Jesse

43.

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

Eleanor Hamilton

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

Hobbs, Herschel

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

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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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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