Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

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Best Quotes about Giving

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

Johnson, Dave

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

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

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

Andrus, Ethel Percy

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

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Young, Vash

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

Proverb

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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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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

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

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

P. D. James

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

Baughan, R.J.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

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Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Bunyan, John

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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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No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.

Angelis, Barbara De

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For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Wellesly, Rev. John

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

Collier, Robert

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

Publilius Syrus

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Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

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

Ross, Percy

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

Mckeun, Rod

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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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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.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

John Wesley

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

Canfield, Jack

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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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Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

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When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, while their present-giving instincts often remain in the undeveloped condition of their earlier days. Something showy and not-too-expensive in a shop is their only conception of the ideal gift.

Munro, Hector Hugh

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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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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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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

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

Reed, Scott

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

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