Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

Best Quotes about Giving

1.

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

2.

Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

3.

Give and it shall be given unto you: good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over... [Luke 6:38]

Bible

4.

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

Jackson, Jesse

5.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

6.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

7.

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

8.

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

Edwards, Flora

9.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

10.

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

Lewis, C. S.

11.

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

Ruskin, John

12.

If you continually give, you will continually have.

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Young, Vash

16.

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

Hobbs, Herschel

17.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

18.

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

Johnson, Dave

19.

Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

20.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

21.

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

22.

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

23.

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.

Camus, Albert

24.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

25.

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

Munthe, Axel

26.

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

Gide, Andre

27.

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

Robbins, Anthony

28.

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

29.

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

30.

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

Bible

31.

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.

32.

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

33.

Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

34.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

35.

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

Canfield, Jack

36.

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

37.

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

Andrus, Ethel Percy

38.

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

39.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

40.

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

Bible

41.

Give light and people will find their own way.

42.

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

43.

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

Collier, Robert

44.

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

Bunyan, John

45.

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

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.

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

Charles Dudley Warner

48.

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

49.

You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

50.

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