Motivational Quotes

Giving

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

- Dyke, Henry Van

Best Quotes about Giving

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

Bible

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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

Bunyan, John

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

Ruskin, John

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

11.

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

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

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Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Macewan, Norman

17.

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

Anderson, Sparky

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Giving half answers won't make the conversation half as long.

Johnson, Dave

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If you continually give, you will continually have.

20.

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

21.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of oneself to others.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

P. D. James

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

Hobbs, Herschel

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Camus, Albert

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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

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Canfield, Jack

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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Give light and people will find their own way.

43.

I wonder if it isn't just cowardice instead of generosity that makes us give tips.

Rogers, Will

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

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

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

Braunstein, Richard