Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Baughan, R.J.

Best Quotes about Giving

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

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

Canfield, Jack

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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Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

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

Johnson, Dave

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

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

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

Munthe, Axel

To whom much is given is much required. [Luke 12:48]

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If I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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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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If you continually give, you will continually have.

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You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Ruskin, John

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Braunstein, Richard

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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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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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You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

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Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Jackson, Jesse

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Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting.

Meltzer, Bernard

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

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You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Macewan, Norman

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

Baughan, R.J.

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Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

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

Euripides

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

Lao-Tzu

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Give, and it shall be given to you. For whatever measure you deal out to others, it will be dealt to you in return.

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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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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

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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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The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord