Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

Best Quotes about Giving

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

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

Euripides

For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

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

The nine-tenths prove man's love, but the one-tenth tests man's legal obedience.

Hobbs, Herschel

He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

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I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

11.

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

Bible

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

Baughan, R.J.

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He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

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Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

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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

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

Charles Dudley Warner

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If you continually give, you will continually have.

18.

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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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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Baldwin, James

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

Canfield, Jack

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Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Sheen, Fulton John

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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

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Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

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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

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

Young, Vash

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

Lao-Tzu

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The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Publilius Syrus

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

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

Bunyan, John

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God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

Graham, Billy

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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