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

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

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

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Baughan, R.J.

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

John Wesley

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

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

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

Gide, Andre

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

Young, Vash

You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

10.

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

11.

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

Lao-Tzu

12.

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

Robbins, Anthony

13.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

14.

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

Macewan, Norman

15.

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

16.

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

Camus, Albert

17.

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

Bible

18.

Give light and people will find their own way.

19.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

20.

For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

21.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

22.

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

23.

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

Collier, Robert

24.

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

Williamson, Marianne

25.

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

26.

Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

27.

A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses.

Proverb

28.

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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29.

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

30.

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

31.

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

Braunstein, Richard

32.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

35.

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

Eleanor Hamilton

36.

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

Bible

37.

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

Publilius Syrus

38.

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

Euripides

39.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

40.

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

41.

Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

42.

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

Edwards, Flora

43.

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

Bunyan, John

44.

If you continually give, you will continually have.

45.

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

46.

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

P. D. James

47.

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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God has given to all men free agency and has granted us the privilege to serve Him or serve Him not, to do that which is right or that which is wrong, but he will hold us strictly to an account for the use that we make of this agency.

49.

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

Proverb, Chinese

50.

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