Motivational Quotes

Giving

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

- Dyke, Henry Van

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

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Canfield, Jack

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

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Meltzer, Bernard

10.

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

Anderson, Sparky

11.

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

Charles Dudley Warner

12.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

14.

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

Braunstein, Richard

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

Bible

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Speare, Grace

18.

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

19.

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

Rohn, Jim

21.

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

Gide, Andre

22.

If you continually give, you will continually have.

23.

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

Proverb

24.

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

Publilius Syrus

25.

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

Ruskin, John

26.

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

27.

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

28.

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

Reed, Scott

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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.

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

Bunyan, John

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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

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

P. D. James

34.

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

Eleanor Hamilton

35.

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

Munthe, Axel

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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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You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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

40.

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

Baughan, R.J.

41.

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

Bible

42.

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

43.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

Lao-Tzu

44.

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

Mother Teresa

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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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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

47.

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

48.

You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

49.

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

Williamson, Marianne

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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