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

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

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

Collier, Robert

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

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Canfield, Jack

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

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

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

Graham, Billy

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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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

11.

Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

12.

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

Euripides

13.

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

Johnson, Dave

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

Publilius Syrus

15.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

16.

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

John Wesley

17.

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

Gide, Andre

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For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

19.

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

20.

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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Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

22.

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

23.

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

Gibbs, Philip

24.

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

Lewis, C. S.

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Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

26.

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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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

28.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

29.

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

30.

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

Munthe, Axel

31.

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

Young, Vash

32.

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

33.

He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

34.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Reed, Scott

37.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

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Before he left, Aunt William pressed a sovereign into his hand guiltily, as if it were conscience money. He, on his side, took it as though it were a doctor's fee, and both ignored the transaction.

Leverson, Ada

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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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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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It is like the seed put in the soil -- the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Charles Dudley Warner

44.

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

Anderson, Sparky

46.

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.

Edwards, Flora

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Seek joy in what you give not in what you get