Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Gide, Andre

Best Quotes about Giving

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

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

Give and it shall be given unto you: good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over... [Luke 6:38]

Bible

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

Let each one do just as he has purposed in his heart; not grudgingly or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver. [2 Corinthians 9:7]

Bible

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

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

Ruskin, John

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

John Wesley

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

Bible

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He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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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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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

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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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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

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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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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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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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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

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Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

26.

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

Reed, Scott

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You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.

Euripides

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

Canfield, Jack

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You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Virgil

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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

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Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

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There never was a person who did anything worth doing, who did not receive more than he gave.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

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

P. D. James

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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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What you keep to yourself you lose, what you give away, you keep forever.

Munthe, Axel

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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

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The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.

Gibbs, Philip

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

Robbins, Anthony

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The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

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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