Motivational Quotes

Giving

You only get to keep what you give away.

- Kopp, Sheldon

Best Quotes about Giving

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Bible

Give light and people will find their own way.

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

Reed, Scott

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

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

Graham, Billy

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.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

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

Rohn, Jim

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Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

12.

You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

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You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

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

Euripides

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

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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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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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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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I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

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

Anderson, Sparky

21.

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

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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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He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

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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 more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

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Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Ross, Percy

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

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What we are doing is satisfying the American public. That's our job. I always say we have to give most of the people what they want most of the time. That's what they expect from us.

Paley, William

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

Sheen, Fulton John

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Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

33.

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

Eleanor Hamilton

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

Mckeun, Rod

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

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.

Publilius Syrus

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

Baughan, R.J.

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

Bunyan, John

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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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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

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

Proverb

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

Speare, Grace

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You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold