Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

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Best Quotes about Giving

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

Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

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

Lao-Tzu

For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

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

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Charles Dudley Warner

11.

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

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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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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 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

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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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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 manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

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

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

Canfield, Jack

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Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

23.

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

Braunstein, Richard

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If you continually give, you will continually have.

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

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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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Give a lot, expect a lot, and if you don't get it, prune.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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EARN as much as you can. SAVE as much as you can. INVEST as much as you can. GIVE as much as you can.

Wellesly, Rev. John

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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

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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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He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

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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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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 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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He that loveth, flieth, runneth, and rejoiceth. He is free, and cannot be held in. He giveth all for all, and hath all in all, because he resteth in one highest above all things, from whom all that is good flows and proceeds.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Munthe, Axel

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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I wonder if it isn't just cowardice instead of generosity that makes us give tips.

Rogers, Will

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

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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