Motivational Quotes

Giving

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

- Forbes, Malcolm S.

Best Quotes about Giving

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

Jackson, Jesse

You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Graham, Billy

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

Lao-Tzu

He that loveth, flieth, runneth, and rejoiceth. He is free, and cannot be held in. He giveth all for all, and hath all in all, because he resteth in one highest above all things, from whom all that is good flows and proceeds.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Virgil

10.

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

11.

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

Gide, Andre

12.

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

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

Bunyan, John

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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.

The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.

Andrus, Ethel Percy

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

Charles Dudley Warner

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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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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

25.

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

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

Bible

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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

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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

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You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

34.

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

Reed, Scott

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

Ross, Percy

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Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

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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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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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The big print giveth, and the fine print taketh away.

Sheen, Fulton John

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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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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Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Bible

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A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses.

Proverb

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

Mother Teresa

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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

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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