Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Charles Dudley Warner

Best Quotes about Giving

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

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

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

Collier, Robert

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

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

Graham, Billy

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

Macewan, Norman

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

Williamson, Marianne

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

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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

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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

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

John Wesley

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Give light and people will find their own way.

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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

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

Baughan, R.J.

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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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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

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

Ross, Percy

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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

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Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Munthe, Axel

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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.

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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

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Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

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

Hobbs, Herschel

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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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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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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

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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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While you have a thing it can be taken from you... but when you give it, you have given it. No robber can take it from you. It is yours then for ever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.

Joyce, James

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He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

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The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Reed, Scott

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

Lao-Tzu

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The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Eleanor Hamilton

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

Ruskin, John

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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