Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Giving

In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.

Edwards, Flora

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

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

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

Canfield, Jack

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

Braunstein, Richard

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

Hobbs, Herschel

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Collier, Robert

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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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

12.

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

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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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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]

Bible

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

Euripides

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Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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

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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

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

22.

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

Gide, Andre

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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]

Bible

24.

For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

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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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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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Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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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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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

32.

Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

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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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You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

36.

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

Anderson, Sparky

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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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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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He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.

Bunyan, John

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

Bible

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Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.

Rohn, Jim

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

Proverb

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Sheen, Fulton John

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He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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