Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Braunstein, Richard

Best Quotes about Giving

1.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

2.

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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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

4.

There never was a person who did anything worth doing, who did not receive more than he gave.

Beecher, Henry Ward

5.

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

7.

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

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

Lao-Tzu

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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

10.

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

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11.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

12.

We must give more in order to get more, It is the generous giving of ourselves that produce the generous harvest.

Marden, Orison Swett

13.

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

Rohn, Jim

14.

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

15.

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

16.

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

Publilius Syrus

17.

Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

18.

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

Collier, Robert

19.

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

Charles Dudley Warner

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The Liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself. [Proverbs 11.25]

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21.

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

P. D. James

22.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

23.

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

Young, Vash

24.

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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25.

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

Gibbs, Philip

26.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

27.

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

Braunstein, Richard

28.

A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.

Jackson, Jesse

29.

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

Hobbs, Herschel

30.

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

Ross, Percy

31.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

32.

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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33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Graham, Billy

36.

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

Speare, Grace

37.

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

Lao-Tzu

38.

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

39.

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

40.

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

41.

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

42.

The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.

Andrus, Ethel Percy

43.

Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

44.

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

Lewis, C. S.