Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Canfield, Jack

Best Quotes about Giving

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Baughan, R.J.

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

Give light and people will find their own way.

Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Bible

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

Peters, Thomas J.

10.

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.

11.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

12.

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

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You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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

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For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

16.

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

Bible

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

P. D. James

18.

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

Collier, Robert

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

Bunyan, John

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

Proverb

26.

You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

27.

If you continually give, you will continually have.

28.

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

Macewan, Norman

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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

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

Lao-Tzu

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The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Reed, Scott

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The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

Charles Dudley Warner

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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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The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.

Mother Teresa

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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

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Young, Vash

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

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

Graham, Billy

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

Ruskin, John

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He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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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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He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

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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