Motivational Quotes

Giving

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

- Forbes, Malcolm S.

Best Quotes about Giving

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

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.

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

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

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Ross, Percy

Do unto the other feller the way he'd like to do unto you, and do it fast.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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

Mother Teresa

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

10.

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

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11.

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

12.

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

Canfield, Jack

13.

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

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

14.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

15.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

16.

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

17.

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

18.

If you continually give, you will continually have.

19.

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

20.

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

21.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

22.

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

Reed, Scott

23.

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

24.

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

Hobbs, Herschel

25.

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

26.

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

27.

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

Anderson, Sparky

28.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Collier, Robert

32.

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

Bible

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Charles Dudley Warner

36.

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

37.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Ruskin, John

41.

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

Braunstein, Richard

42.

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

John Wesley

43.

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

Virgil

44.

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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45.

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

46.

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

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47.

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

Rohn, Jim

48.

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

49.

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

50.

A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of forests. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high.

Macleod, Fiona