Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

Best Quotes about Giving

1.

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

Publilius Syrus

2.

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

Proverb

3.

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

4.

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

Reed, Scott

5.

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

6.

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

Edwards, Flora

7.

You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

8.

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

9.

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

Young, Vash

10.

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

11.

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

12.

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

Bunyan, John

13.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

14.

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

Collier, Robert

15.

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.

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

17.

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

Anderson, Sparky

18.

Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

19.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

20.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

21.

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

22.

He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

Lao-Tzu

23.

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

24.

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

25.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

26.

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

Charles Dudley Warner

27.

One man gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want. [Proverbs 11-24]

Bible

28.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

29.

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

P. D. James

30.

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

Bible

31.

Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

32.

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

Baughan, R.J.

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Gibbs, Philip

36.

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

Rohn, Jim

37.

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

38.

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

39.

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

Macewan, Norman

40.

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

41.

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

42.

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.

43.

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

Rogers, Will

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Bible

49.

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

50.

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

Marden, Orison Swett