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

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

John Wesley

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

Robbins, Anthony

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

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.

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Canfield, Jack

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

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

If you continually give, you will continually have.

10.

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

Virgil

11.

He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

12.

We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving

Meltzer, Bernard

13.

Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

14.

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Baughan, R.J.

18.

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

Mckeun, Rod

19.

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

Munthe, Axel

20.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

21.

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

P. D. James

22.

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

23.

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

Lewis, C. S.

24.

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

Seneca

25.

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

Euripides

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The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.

Andrus, Ethel Percy

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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

28.

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

29.

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

30.

Let me be a little kinder, Let me be a little blinder To the faults about me; Let me praise a little more, Let me be, when I am weary; Just a little bit more cheery, Let me serve a little better Those that I am striving for. Let me be a little braver When temptation bids me waver, Let me strive a little harder To be all that I should be; Let me be a little meeker to the brother that is weaker; Let me think more of my neighbor and a little less of me.

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

Lao-Tzu

32.

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

33.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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

35.

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

36.

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

Proverb, Chinese

37.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

38.

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

Bible

39.

One man gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want. [Proverbs 11-24]

Bible

40.

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

Gibbs, Philip

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There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

42.

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

43.

Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

44.

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

Eleanor Hamilton

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

Reed, Scott

46.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

48.

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

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Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

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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