Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Braunstein, Richard

Best Quotes about Giving

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

Ruskin, John

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Sheen, Fulton John

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

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

Proverb, Chinese

You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Give, and it shall be given to you. For whatever measure you deal out to others, it will be dealt to you in return.

Bible

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

Young, Vash

12.

Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

13.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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 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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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]

Bible

18.

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

Collier, Robert

20.

To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

21.

Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

22.

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

23.

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

Lewis, C. S.

24.

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

Lao-Tzu

25.

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

26.

For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

27.

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.

Robbins, Anthony

28.

In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.

Edwards, Flora

29.

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

Munthe, Axel

30.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

31.

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

32.

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

Proverb

33.

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

Bible

34.

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

Gide, Andre

35.

we make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

36.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

37.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

38.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

39.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

40.

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

41.

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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Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

43.

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

44.

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

45.

You must give to get, You must sow the seed, before you can reap the harvest.

Reed, Scott

46.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

47.

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

Eleanor Hamilton

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