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

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

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

A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of forests. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high.

Macleod, Fiona

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Speare, Grace

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

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

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.

Rohn, Jim

10.

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.

11.

He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

12.

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

13.

Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

14.

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

15.

If you continually give, you will continually have.

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Lewis, C. S.

20.

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

21.

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

Bible

22.

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

Williamson, Marianne

23.

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

Bible

24.

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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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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There would be no advantage to be gained by sowing a field of wheat if the harvest did not return more than was sown.

Hill, Napoleon

27.

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

Lao-Tzu

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

29.

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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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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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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Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

37.

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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Let me be a little kinder, Let me be a little blinder To the faults about me; Let me praise a little more, Let me be, when I am weary; Just a little bit more cheery, Let me serve a little better Those that I am striving for. Let me be a little braver When temptation bids me waver, Let me strive a little harder To be all that I should be; Let me be a little meeker to the brother that is weaker; Let me think more of my neighbor and a little less of me.

39.

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

Bible

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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

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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

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

44.

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

P. D. James

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

Ruskin, John

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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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You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

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

Anderson, Sparky

49.

Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

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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