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.

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Best Quotes about Giving

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

Camus, Albert

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

Gibbs, Philip

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

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I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

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

Johnson, Dave

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

John Wesley

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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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14.

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

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

Jackson, Jesse

16.

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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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

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The nine-tenths prove man's love, but the one-tenth tests man's legal obedience.

Hobbs, Herschel

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Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

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The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Young, Vash

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

P. D. James

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

31.

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

Andrus, Ethel Percy

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Give light and people will find their own way.

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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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If you continually give, you will continually have.

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

Graham, Billy

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

Eleanor Hamilton

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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 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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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

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Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

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

Baughan, R.J.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

49.

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

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The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre