Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Gide, Andre

Best Quotes about Giving

1.

If you continually give, you will continually have.

2.

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

3.

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

4.

You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

5.

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

6.

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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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

8.

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

9.

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

Hobbs, Herschel

10.

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

Anderson, Sparky

11.

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

12.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Rogers, Will

17.

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

18.

Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

19.

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

20.

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

Virgil

21.

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

22.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

23.

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

Jackson, Jesse

24.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

25.

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

Reed, Scott

26.

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

27.

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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28.

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

Eleanor Hamilton

29.

Give, and it shall be given to you. For whatever measure you deal out to others, it will be dealt to you in return.

Bible

30.

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

Young, Vash

31.

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

P. D. James

32.

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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.

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

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35.

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

36.

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

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37.

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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38.

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

39.

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

Graham, Billy

40.

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

Lao-Tzu

41.

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

42.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

43.

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.

Robbins, Anthony

44.

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

45.

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

46.

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

47.

The more we give of anything, the more we shall get back.

Speare, Grace

48.

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl