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

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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

2.

If you continually give, you will continually have.

3.

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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Let me be a little kinder, Let me be a little blinder To the faults about me; Let me praise a little more, Let me be, when I am weary; Just a little bit more cheery, Let me serve a little better Those that I am striving for. Let me be a little braver When temptation bids me waver, Let me strive a little harder To be all that I should be; Let me be a little meeker to the brother that is weaker; Let me think more of my neighbor and a little less of me.

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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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Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

7.

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

9.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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

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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

12.

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

Edwards, Flora

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

Lao-Tzu

14.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

15.

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

Proverb

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

Eleanor Hamilton

17.

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

18.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

19.

Do unto the other feller the way he'd like to do unto you, and do it fast.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

20.

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

21.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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

Publilius Syrus

24.

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

Anderson, Sparky

25.

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

26.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

27.

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

Charles Dudley Warner

28.

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

Macewan, Norman

29.

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

30.

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

31.

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

32.

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

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

Johnson, Dave

34.

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

Andrus, Ethel Percy

35.

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

Ross, Percy

36.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Munthe, Axel

38.

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

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

Braunstein, Richard

40.

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

41.

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

Gide, Andre

42.

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

Euripides

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Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting.

Meltzer, Bernard

44.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

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Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

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

Lewis, C. S.

47.

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

Canfield, Jack

49.

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

50.

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord