Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Collier, Robert

Best Quotes about Giving

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

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

Give light and people will find their own way.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Camus, Albert

Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

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

Bible

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Lao-Tzu

10.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

12.

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

Canfield, Jack

15.

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

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

Euripides

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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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The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

19.

You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

20.

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

21.

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

Charles Dudley Warner

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

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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 that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

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

Mckeun, Rod

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

Braunstein, Richard

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Bible

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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

34.

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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You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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.

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Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

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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

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

Proverb

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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

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Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

46.

You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Anderson, Sparky

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

Gibbs, Philip