Motivational Quotes

Giving

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

- Bateson, Mary

Best Quotes about Giving

You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give.

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

Graham, Billy

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

Give light and people will find their own way.

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

Gide, Andre

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.

Camus, Albert

For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Collier, Robert

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

Gibbs, Philip

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Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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If you continually give, you will continually have.

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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

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

Munthe, Axel

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

Baughan, R.J.

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Sow much, reap much; sow little, reap little.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Anderson, Sparky

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

Rogers, Will

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

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

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

Publilius Syrus

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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]

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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

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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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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

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

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Let each one do just as he has purposed in his heart; not grudgingly or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver. [2 Corinthians 9:7]

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Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Lao-Tzu

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Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

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There never was a person who did anything worth doing, who did not receive more than he gave.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Sheen, Fulton John

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Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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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

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

Mckeun, Rod

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

Charles Dudley Warner

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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

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Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

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