Motivational Quotes

Giving

You only get to keep what you give away.

- Kopp, Sheldon

Best Quotes about Giving

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

Young, Vash

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

Lewis, C. S.

The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.

Andrus, Ethel Percy

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

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

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

Braunstein, Richard

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Eleanor Hamilton

10.

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

11.

You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

12.

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

13.

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

14.

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

Proverb, Chinese

15.

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

Lao-Tzu

16.

There never was a person who did anything worth doing, who did not receive more than he gave.

Beecher, Henry Ward

17.

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

Collier, Robert

18.

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

Charles Dudley Warner

19.

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

20.

He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

21.

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

Graham, Billy

22.

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

23.

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

24.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

25.

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

Bunyan, John

26.

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

Macewan, Norman

27.

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

Ross, Percy

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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

29.

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

30.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

31.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

32.

Why is it no one ever sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get one perfect rose.

Parker, Dorothy

33.

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

34.

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

35.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Munthe, Axel

38.

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Anderson, Sparky

43.

Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

44.

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

Gide, Andre

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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.