Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Hobbs, Herschel

Best Quotes about Giving

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

Canfield, Jack

Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

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

Eleanor Hamilton

He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

10.

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

Gide, Andre

11.

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

Young, Vash

12.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

P. D. James

16.

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

17.

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

Speare, Grace

18.

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

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19.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

20.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

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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

25.

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

Macewan, Norman

26.

You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

27.

You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give.

28.

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

Gibbs, Philip

29.

If you continually give, you will continually have.

30.

Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

31.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

32.

You have to sow before you can reap. You have to give before you can get.

Collier, Robert

33.

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

Proverb, Chinese

34.

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

35.

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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The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

37.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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.

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

Bunyan, John

40.

He who gives while he lives, get to know where it goes.

Ross, Percy

41.

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

Hobbs, Herschel

42.

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

43.

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

Graham, Billy

44.

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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45.

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

Lewis, C. S.

46.

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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While you have a thing it can be taken from you... but when you give it, you have given it. No robber can take it from you. It is yours then for ever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.

Joyce, James

48.

For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

49.

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

Sheen, Fulton John