Motivational Quotes

Giving

He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Giving

1.

If you continually give, you will continually have.

2.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

Ford, Henry

3.

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

Williamson, Marianne

4.

You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

5.

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

P. D. James

6.

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

7.

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

Braunstein, Richard

8.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

9.

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

10.

Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

11.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

12.

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

Collier, Robert

13.

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

Johnson, Dave

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.

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

Jackson, Jesse

16.

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

17.

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

18.

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

Ruskin, John

19.

He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

20.

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

21.

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

Charles Dudley Warner

22.

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

Andrus, Ethel Percy

23.

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

Bunyan, John

24.

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

25.

Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

26.

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

27.

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

Mother Teresa

28.

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

Eleanor Hamilton

29.

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

30.

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

Publilius Syrus

31.

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

Canfield, Jack

32.

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

Virgil

33.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

34.

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

Gide, Andre

35.

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

36.

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

Lewis, C. S.

37.

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

Bible

38.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

39.

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

40.

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

Macewan, Norman

41.

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

Camus, Albert

42.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

43.

The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.

Tracy, Brian

44.

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

Proverb

45.

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

46.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

47.

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

Ross, Percy

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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