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.

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

2.

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

Graham, Billy

3.

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

4.

If I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed.

Williamson, Marianne

5.

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

6.

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

Gide, Andre

7.

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

Lewis, C. S.

8.

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

Collier, Robert

9.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

10.

Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.

John Wesley

11.

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

Eleanor Hamilton

12.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

13.

The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them.

Mckeun, Rod

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Lao-Tzu

17.

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

18.

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

19.

Do unto the other feller the way he'd like to do unto you, and do it fast.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

20.

One man gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want. [Proverbs 11-24]

Bible

21.

Nature does not give to those who will not spend...

Baughan, R.J.

22.

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

Macewan, Norman

23.

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

24.

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

Proverb, Chinese

25.

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

26.

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

Gibbs, Philip

27.

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

28.

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

Braunstein, Richard

29.

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

30.

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

Proverb

31.

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

32.

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

Publilius Syrus

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.

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

Rogers, Will

35.

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

Hobbs, Herschel

36.

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

Ross, Percy

37.

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

Ruskin, John

38.

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

Lao-Tzu

39.

If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach.

Margaret Cho

40.

A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of forests. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high.

Macleod, Fiona

41.

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

Camus, Albert

42.

If you continually give, you will continually have.

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

46.

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.

47.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

48.

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

49.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

50.

The trick is to realize that after giving your best, there's nothing more to give.

Anderson, Sparky