Motivational Quotes

Giving

He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Giving

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

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

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

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

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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

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

Collier, Robert

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

Young, Vash

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.

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Hobbs, Herschel

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Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

14.

For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

P. D. James

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You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

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If you continually give, you will continually have.

18.

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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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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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

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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

29.

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

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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]

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Braunstein, Richard

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

Proverb, Chinese

37.

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

John Wesley

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

Rohn, Jim

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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 more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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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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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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Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

48.

You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb

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He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas