Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Anderson, Sparky

Best Quotes about Giving

Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.

John Wesley

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

Baughan, R.J.

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

Ross, Percy

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

Collier, Robert

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

Ruskin, John

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

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

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

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

Macewan, Norman

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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

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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

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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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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

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Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

15.

You can no more give what you haven't learned than you can come back from a place you've never been.

16.

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

Andrus, Ethel Percy

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

Publilius Syrus

20.

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

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

Mckeun, Rod

24.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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

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

Williamson, Marianne

28.

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

Anderson, Sparky

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

Bible

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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

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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

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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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He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

35.

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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Give light and people will find their own way.

37.

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

Rogers, Will

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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

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

Eleanor Hamilton

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You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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

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Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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

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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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Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Rohn, Jim

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The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.