Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Jackson, Jesse

Best Quotes about Giving

For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

The trick is to realize that after giving your best, there's nothing more to give.

Anderson, Sparky

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

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

Speare, Grace

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

Munthe, Axel

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

John Wesley

He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

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

10.

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

11.

Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

12.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

13.

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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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

15.

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.

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

19.

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

20.

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

21.

In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.

Edwards, Flora

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

Lao-Tzu

24.

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

25.

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

Johnson, Dave

26.

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

27.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

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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

29.

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

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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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

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.

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

Graham, Billy

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Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.

Rohn, Jim

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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

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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

40.

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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Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

42.

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

43.

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

44.

A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses.

Proverb

45.

Give light and people will find their own way.

46.

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

Euripides

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There is only one way to succeed in anything and that is to give everything. I do and I demand that my players do. Any man's finest hour is when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle... victorious.

Lombardi, Vince

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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

49.

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

Collier, Robert

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