Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

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

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

Lewis, C. S.

What you keep to yourself you lose, what you give away, you keep forever.

Munthe, Axel

For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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.

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

Johnson, Dave

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

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

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

P. D. James

10.

It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving.

Braunstein, Richard

11.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

12.

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

Mother Teresa

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

Hobbs, Herschel

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Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Give a lot, expect a lot, and if you don't get it, prune.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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

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There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

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

Eleanor Hamilton

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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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I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

24.

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

John Wesley

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

Macewan, Norman

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

Bible

28.

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

29.

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

Ross, Percy

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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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Baughan, R.J.

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The more we give of anything, the more we shall get back.

Speare, Grace

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

Sheen, Fulton John

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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

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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

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Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

39.

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

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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

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

Edwards, Flora

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Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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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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The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Rogers, Will