Motivational Quotes

Giving

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Giving

1.

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

Speare, Grace

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.

3.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

4.

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

5.

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

Euripides

6.

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

7.

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

8.

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

Munthe, Axel

9.

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

10.

When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, while their present-giving instincts often remain in the undeveloped condition of their earlier days. Something showy and not-too-expensive in a shop is their only conception of the ideal gift.

Munro, Hector Hugh

11.

Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

12.

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

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13.

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

Young, Vash

14.

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

P. D. James

15.

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

Proverb

16.

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

Graham, Billy

17.

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

Collier, Robert

18.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

19.

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

John Wesley

20.

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

21.

If you continually give, you will continually have.

22.

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

Publilius Syrus

23.

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.

24.

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

25.

Give light and people will find their own way.

26.

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

27.

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

28.

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

Ruskin, John

29.

Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

30.

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

31.

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

Baughan, R.J.

32.

Giving half answers won't make the conversation half as long.

Johnson, Dave

33.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

34.

All that this world knows of living lies in giving -- and more giving; He that keeps, be sure he loses -Friendship grows by what it uses.

Maclaren, Alexander

35.

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

36.

You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

37.

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

38.

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

Canfield, Jack

39.

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

Robbins, Anthony

40.

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

41.

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

Reed, Scott

42.

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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43.

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

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44.

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

45.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

46.

Why is it no one ever sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get one perfect rose.

Parker, Dorothy

47.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

48.

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

Lewis, C. S.

49.

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

50.

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

Mckeun, Rod