Motivational Quotes

Giving

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Giving

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

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

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

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Williamson, Marianne

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

10.

Give and it shall be given unto you: good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over... [Luke 6:38]

Bible

11.

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

Macewan, Norman

12.

Trust not the horse, O Trojans. Be it what it may, I fear the Grecians even when they offer gifts.

Virgil

13.

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

Baughan, R.J.

14.

Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

15.

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

16.

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

Proverb

17.

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

18.

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

Robbins, Anthony

20.

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

21.

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

Mckeun, Rod

22.

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

23.

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

Lao-Tzu

24.

Give light and people will find their own way.

25.

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

Canfield, Jack

26.

He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

27.

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

28.

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

29.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

30.

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

Rogers, Will

31.

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

32.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

33.

For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

38.

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

Collier, Robert

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

Braunstein, Richard

40.

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

Gibbs, Philip

41.

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.

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

45.

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

46.

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

Bible

47.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

48.

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

Bible

49.

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

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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