Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Graham, Billy

Best Quotes about Giving

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.

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

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.

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

Braunstein, Richard

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them.

Mckeun, Rod

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

Speare, Grace

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

Lao-Tzu

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Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

11.

You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

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

Canfield, Jack

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

Sheen, Fulton John

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

Eleanor Hamilton

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Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

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

18.

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

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

Baughan, R.J.

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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

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You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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If you continually give, you will continually have.

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

Mother Teresa

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

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

P. D. James

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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

33.

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

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Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

35.

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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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

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

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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

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

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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

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The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.

Seneca

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Johnson, Dave

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