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

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

Canfield, Jack

A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses.

Proverb

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

Camus, Albert

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

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

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

Gibbs, Philip

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

Euripides

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.

Give light and people will find their own way.

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The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

13.

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

Ruskin, John

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Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

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Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

17.

To whom much is given is much required. [Luke 12:48]

Bible

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There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

19.

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

Lewis, C. S.

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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.

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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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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Johnson, Dave

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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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Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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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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30.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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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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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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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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Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

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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.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Munthe, Axel

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

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

Collier, Robert

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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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Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Speare, Grace

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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