Motivational Quotes

Giving

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

- Benjamin, Walter

Best Quotes about Giving

He who gives while he lives, get to know where it goes.

Ross, Percy

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

For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

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

Publilius Syrus

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

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

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

Canfield, Jack

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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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Let me be a little kinder, Let me be a little blinder To the faults about me; Let me praise a little more, Let me be, when I am weary; Just a little bit more cheery, Let me serve a little better Those that I am striving for. Let me be a little braver When temptation bids me waver, Let me strive a little harder To be all that I should be; Let me be a little meeker to the brother that is weaker; Let me think more of my neighbor and a little less of me.

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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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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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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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I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.

Lewis, C. S.

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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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17.

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

18.

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

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

Johnson, Dave

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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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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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Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Euripides

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

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If you continually give, you will continually have.

27.

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

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

Collier, Robert

29.

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

John Wesley

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Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

Lewis, C. S.

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The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.

Tracy, Brian

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

Braunstein, Richard

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Ruskin, John

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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.

38.

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

39.

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

42.

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

Camus, Albert

43.

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