Motivational Quotes

Giving

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]

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Best Quotes about Giving

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

Hobbs, Herschel

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

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

Sheen, Fulton John

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]

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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

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

Braunstein, Richard

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

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

Bunyan, John

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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The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

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

John Wesley

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

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He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

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

Euripides

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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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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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The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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

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

Canfield, Jack

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

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

Baughan, R.J.

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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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Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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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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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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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

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

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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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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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You can no more give what you haven't learned than you can come back from a place you've never been.