Motivational Quotes

Giving

You only get to keep what you give away.

- Kopp, Sheldon

Best Quotes about Giving

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

Graham, Billy

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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.

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

Ross, Percy

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Hobbs, Herschel

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

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

Jackson, Jesse

10.

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

11.

To whom much is given is much required. [Luke 12:48]

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12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Eleanor Hamilton

15.

Give light and people will find their own way.

16.

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

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17.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

18.

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

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You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

20.

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

21.

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

Gide, Andre

22.

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

Young, Vash

23.

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

Charles Dudley Warner

24.

He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

25.

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

Williamson, Marianne

26.

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

John Wesley

27.

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

28.

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

P. D. James

29.

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

Proverb

30.

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

31.

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

Canfield, Jack

32.

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

Rogers, Will

33.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

34.

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

35.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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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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Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

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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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He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

Lao-Tzu

41.

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

Macewan, Norman

42.

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

Publilius Syrus

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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.

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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

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

Baughan, R.J.

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Sow much, reap much; sow little, reap little.

Proverb, Chinese

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If you continually give, you will continually have.