Motivational Quotes

Giving

In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.

- Edwards, Flora

Best Quotes about Giving

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.

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

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

P. D. James

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

Gibbs, Philip

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

Collier, Robert

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

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

Euripides

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

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

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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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I have always noticed that a man who gives the most for the money, gets the most business.

Young, Vash

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

Jackson, Jesse

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If you continually give, you will continually have.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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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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He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

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Trust not the horse, O Trojans. Be it what it may, I fear the Grecians even when they offer gifts.

Virgil

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Gide, Andre

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

Canfield, Jack

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There never was a person who did anything worth doing, who did not receive more than he gave.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Ross, Percy

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You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

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

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Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

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

John Wesley

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

Lao-Tzu

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There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

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The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

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

Bunyan, John

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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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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]

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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