Motivational Quotes

Giving

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

- Benjamin, Walter

Best Quotes about Giving

We must give more in order to get more, It is the generous giving of ourselves that produce the generous harvest.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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.

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

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

The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.

Andrus, Ethel Percy

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

Eleanor Hamilton

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

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

Rohn, Jim

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Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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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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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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Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

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

Bible

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

Lao-Tzu

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

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Camus, Albert

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Munthe, Axel

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

Charles Dudley Warner

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

Speare, Grace

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The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Gibbs, Philip

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There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

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I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

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It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.

Mother Teresa

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

Bible

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Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

44.

If you continually give, you will continually have.

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

Graham, Billy

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De