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

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 gift in season is a double favor to the needy.

Publilius Syrus

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.

Mother Teresa

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Ross, Percy

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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 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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Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Eleanor Hamilton

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I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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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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Give light and people will find their own way.

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The Dead Sea is the dead sea, because it continually receives and never gives.

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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

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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]

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

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The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

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Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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Getters don't get -- givers get.