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

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

Young, Vash

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

Virgil

4.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

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He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

6.

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

Canfield, Jack

7.

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

Collier, Robert

8.

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

P. D. James

9.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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

11.

It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.

Gibbs, Philip

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

Bunyan, John

13.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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

16.

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

Proverb, Chinese

17.

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

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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

19.

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

Speare, Grace

20.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

21.

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

22.

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

Ruskin, John

23.

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

Euripides

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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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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

26.

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

27.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

28.

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

29.

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

Braunstein, Richard

30.

For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

31.

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

32.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

33.

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

Proverb

34.

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

35.

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

36.

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

Reed, Scott

37.

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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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

39.

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

Charles Dudley Warner

40.

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

41.

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

42.

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

Andrus, Ethel Percy

43.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

44.

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

Anderson, Sparky

45.

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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46.

You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

47.

Give light and people will find their own way.

48.

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

49.

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

50.

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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