Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Giving

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

Camus, Albert

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

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

Reed, Scott

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

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

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

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

Gibbs, Philip

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

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

11.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Rohn, Jim

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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

14.

Giving presents is a talent; to know what a person wants, to know when and how to get it, to give it lovingly and well. Unless a character possesses this talent there is no moment more annihilating to ease than that in which a present is received and given.

Glenconner, Pamela

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

Munthe, Axel

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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

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

P. D. James

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It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

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The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

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

Bunyan, John

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

Williamson, Marianne

29.

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

30.

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 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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He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Speare, Grace

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

Canfield, Jack

39.

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

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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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The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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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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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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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]

Bible

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

Sheen, Fulton John

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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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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