Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- John Wesley

Best Quotes about Giving

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

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

Graham, Billy

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Baughan, R.J.

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

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

John Wesley

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

Proverb

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

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

Lao-Tzu

10.

I wonder if it isn't just cowardice instead of generosity that makes us give tips.

Rogers, Will

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

12.

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

Gibbs, Philip

13.

Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

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

Bible

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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

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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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

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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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Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

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There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

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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

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

Speare, Grace

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

Lewis, C. S.

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I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

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If I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed.

Williamson, Marianne

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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

29.

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

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Hobbs, Herschel

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

Johnson, Dave

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

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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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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

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Give and it shall be given unto you: good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over... [Luke 6:38]

Bible

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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

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You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Macewan, Norman

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

Charles Dudley Warner

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Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

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

Peters, Thomas J.

43.

For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

Euripides

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Bible

49.

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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You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon