Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

Best Quotes about Giving

1.

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

2.

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

3.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

4.

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

5.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

6.

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

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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.

11.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

12.

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

13.

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

14.

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

Lao-Tzu

15.

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

Macewan, Norman

16.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

17.

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

Johnson, Dave

18.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

19.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of oneself to others.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

20.

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

21.

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

Publilius Syrus

22.

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

23.

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

Mckeun, Rod

24.

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

25.

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

26.

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

27.

He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

28.

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

29.

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

Hobbs, Herschel

30.

For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

31.

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

32.

You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

33.

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

34.

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

Bunyan, John

35.

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

36.

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

37.

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

Mother Teresa

38.

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

39.

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

Munthe, Axel

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Charles Dudley Warner

43.

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

Lewis, C. S.

44.

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