Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

Best Quotes about Giving

1.

Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

2.

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

Anderson, Sparky

3.

The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them.

Mckeun, Rod

4.

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

5.

If I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed.

Williamson, Marianne

6.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

7.

You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

8.

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

9.

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

10.

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

Baughan, R.J.

11.

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

Proverb, Chinese

12.

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

13.

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

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15.

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

16.

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

17.

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

Charles Dudley Warner

18.

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

Rohn, Jim

19.

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

20.

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

Lewis, C. S.

21.

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

Munthe, Axel

22.

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

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23.

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

Braunstein, Richard

24.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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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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

30.

The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.

Tracy, Brian

31.

Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

32.

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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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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34.

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

Young, Vash

35.

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

P. D. James

36.

The Dead Sea is the dead sea, because it continually receives and never gives.

37.

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

38.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

39.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

40.

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

Euripides

41.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

42.

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]

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43.

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

44.

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

Speare, Grace

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Lao-Tzu

48.

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

49.

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

Macewan, Norman

50.

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