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

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

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

Give light and people will find their own way.

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

Bunyan, John

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

There would be no advantage to be gained by sowing a field of wheat if the harvest did not return more than was sown.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

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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

11.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

12.

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

Publilius Syrus

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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

15.

Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

16.

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

John Wesley

17.

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

P. D. James

18.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

19.

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

Rohn, Jim

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Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

22.

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

23.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

25.

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

Proverb

26.

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

27.

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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.

29.

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

Ruskin, John

30.

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

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

31.

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

32.

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

Rogers, Will

33.

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

34.

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

Reed, Scott

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

Collier, Robert

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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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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

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

Bible

40.

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

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