Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

Best Quotes about Giving

To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

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

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

There never was a person who did anything worth doing, who did not receive more than he gave.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Lao-Tzu

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

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

Braunstein, Richard

10.

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

Proverb, Chinese

11.

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

Reed, Scott

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

Bible

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Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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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.

16.

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

Collier, Robert

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

Young, Vash

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

Gide, Andre

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

Lewis, C. S.

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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

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

Williamson, Marianne

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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 gift in season is a double favor to the needy.

Publilius Syrus

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

Bible

28.

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

Ruskin, John

29.

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

Speare, Grace

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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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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.

32.

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

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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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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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Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

39.

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

Munthe, Axel

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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

42.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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

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

Anderson, Sparky

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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

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

Bunyan, John

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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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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