Motivational Quotes

Giving

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Giving

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

Graham, Billy

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

Bible

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

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

Speare, Grace

He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.

Bunyan, John

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

Rogers, Will

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

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

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

10.

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

11.

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

12.

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

Eleanor Hamilton

13.

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

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

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

Bible

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

Publilius Syrus

17.

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

Anderson, Sparky

18.

He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

19.

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

Jackson, Jesse

20.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

P. D. James

22.

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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Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Marden, Orison Swett

25.

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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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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The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.

Tracy, Brian

28.

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

29.

Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

30.

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

31.

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

Mckeun, Rod

32.

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

Munthe, Axel

33.

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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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

35.

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

Edwards, Flora

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.

Euripides

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Braunstein, Richard

44.

You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Camus, Albert

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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

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

Bible

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

Canfield, Jack

49.

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

John Wesley

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If you continually give, you will continually have.