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

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

Ruskin, John

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

Gide, Andre

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

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

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

Eleanor Hamilton

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

Mother Teresa

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

Ross, Percy

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

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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

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Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

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For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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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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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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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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You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Macewan, Norman

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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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You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Collier, Robert

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Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Euripides

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Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

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When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, while their present-giving instincts often remain in the undeveloped condition of their earlier days. Something showy and not-too-expensive in a shop is their only conception of the ideal gift.

Munro, Hector Hugh

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

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

Gibbs, Philip

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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.

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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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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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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Sow much, reap much; sow little, reap little.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Give light and people will find their own way.

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

Johnson, Dave

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

Speare, Grace

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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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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

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

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

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