Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

Best Quotes about Giving

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

Macewan, Norman

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

Joyce, James

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

Jackson, Jesse

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Give little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

Ruskin, John

For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

10.

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

11.

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

Virgil

12.

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

13.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

14.

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

Canfield, Jack

15.

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

Lewis, C. S.

16.

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

Johnson, Dave

17.

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

Rohn, Jim

18.

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

Reed, Scott

19.

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

Robbins, Anthony

20.

The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.

Baltasar Gracian

21.

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

Edwards, Flora

22.

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

Speare, Grace

23.

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

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

Munthe, Axel

25.

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

Anderson, Sparky

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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

27.

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

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

Bunyan, John

29.

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

Young, Vash

30.

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

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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

32.

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

Braunstein, Richard

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It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.

Camus, Albert

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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

35.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

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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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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

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The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

40.

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

Gide, Andre

41.

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

Rogers, Will

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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

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

Lao-Tzu

44.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

45.

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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He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Eleanor Hamilton

49.

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

50.

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