Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Andrus, Ethel Percy

Best Quotes about Giving

1.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

2.

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

Robbins, Anthony

3.

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

4.

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

5.

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

6.

For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

7.

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

8.

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

Macewan, Norman

9.

You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

10.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

11.

It is more blessed to give than to receive. [Acts 20:35]

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12.

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

13.

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

14.

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

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15.

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

Rogers, Will

16.

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

Johnson, Dave

17.

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

18.

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

Virgil

19.

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

Publilius Syrus

20.

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

Mckeun, Rod

21.

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

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.

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

24.

It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.

Mother Teresa

25.

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

26.

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

27.

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

28.

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

29.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of oneself to others.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

30.

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

Young, Vash

31.

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

32.

You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

33.

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

34.

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

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35.

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

P. D. James

36.

There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.

Sarton, May

37.

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.

38.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

39.

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

Canfield, Jack

40.

Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

41.

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

42.

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

Charles Dudley Warner

43.

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

Lewis, C. S.

44.

Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

45.

All that this world knows of living lies in giving -- and more giving; He that keeps, be sure he loses -Friendship grows by what it uses.

Maclaren, Alexander

46.

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

John Wesley

47.

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

Lao-Tzu

48.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

49.

The real secret of happiness is not what you have or what you receive; it's what you share

50.

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