Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Gide, Andre

Best Quotes about Giving

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

Bible

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 do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

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

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

Collier, Robert

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Johnson, Dave

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

We must give more in order to get more, It is the generous giving of ourselves that produce the generous harvest.

Marden, Orison Swett

10.

In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.

Edwards, Flora

11.

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

12.

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.

13.

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

14.

Give light and people will find their own way.

15.

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

Lao-Tzu

16.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

17.

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

18.

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

19.

EARN as much as you can. SAVE as much as you can. INVEST as much as you can. GIVE as much as you can.

Wellesly, Rev. John

20.

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

21.

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

22.

For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

23.

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

Bible

24.

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

Bible

25.

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

26.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Proverb, Chinese

28.

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

29.

You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

30.

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

Hobbs, Herschel

31.

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

Jackson, Jesse

32.

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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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

34.

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

Ruskin, John

35.

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

Young, Vash

36.

Give a lot, expect a lot, and if you don't get it, prune.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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

38.

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

39.

Nature does not give to those who will not spend...

Baughan, R.J.

40.

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

Charles Dudley Warner

41.

I wonder if it isn't just cowardice instead of generosity that makes us give tips.

Rogers, Will