Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Eleanor Hamilton

Best Quotes about Giving

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

Charles Dudley Warner

You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

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

John Wesley

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

Bible

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

Mckeun, Rod

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

Williamson, Marianne

We must give more in order to get more, It is the generous giving of ourselves that produce the generous harvest.

Marden, Orison Swett

10.

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

Euripides

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Reed, Scott

14.

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

15.

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

Camus, Albert

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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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Collier, Robert

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

25.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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

27.

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

Publilius Syrus

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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

30.

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

31.

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

Rogers, Will

32.

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

33.

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.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

35.

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

36.

Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

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You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

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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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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.

40.

The Liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself. [Proverbs 11.25]

Bible

41.

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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One man gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want. [Proverbs 11-24]

Bible

43.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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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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God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

Graham, Billy

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The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.

Seneca

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

Canfield, Jack

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

Gibbs, Philip

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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