Motivational Quotes

Giving

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

- Benjamin, Walter

Best Quotes about Giving

1.

You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

2.

There would be no advantage to be gained by sowing a field of wheat if the harvest did not return more than was sown.

Hill, Napoleon

3.

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

7.

Give light and people will find their own way.

8.

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

Lao-Tzu

9.

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

10.

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

Gibbs, Philip

11.

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

12.

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

Mckeun, Rod

13.

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

Anderson, Sparky

14.

Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

18.

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

19.

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

Edwards, Flora

20.

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

21.

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

22.

Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

23.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

24.

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

25.

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

Publilius Syrus

26.

If you continually give, you will continually have.

27.

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

Collier, Robert

28.

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

Young, Vash

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Do unto the other feller the way he'd like to do unto you, and do it fast.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

32.

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

33.

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

Johnson, Dave

34.

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

Eleanor Hamilton

35.

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

Canfield, Jack

36.

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

Bunyan, John

37.

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

38.

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

Gide, Andre

39.

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

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

40.

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

41.

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

Graham, Billy

42.

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

43.

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

Bible

44.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

45.

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

46.

EARN as much as you can. SAVE as much as you can. INVEST as much as you can. GIVE as much as you can.