Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

Best Quotes about Giving

Give light and people will find their own way.

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

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

Ruskin, John

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

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

Ross, Percy

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

Gide, Andre

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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]

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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

11.

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

Mckeun, Rod

12.

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

Rogers, Will

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

14.

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

Charles Dudley Warner

16.

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.

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Munthe, Axel

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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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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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Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting.

Meltzer, Bernard

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Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Euripides

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

P. D. James

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Kempis, Thomas

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You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

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

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

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

Baughan, R.J.

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He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

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If you continually give, you will continually have.

40.

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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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

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

Young, Vash

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Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

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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

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

Collier, Robert

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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]

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

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

Edwards, Flora