Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

Best Quotes about Giving

1.

Give, and it shall be given to you. For whatever measure you deal out to others, it will be dealt to you in return.

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2.

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

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3.

Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

4.

It is like the seed put in the soil -- the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

Marden, Orison Swett

5.

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

6.

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

7.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

8.

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

9.

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

10.

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

11.

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

12.

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

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13.

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

Collier, Robert

14.

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

Gide, Andre

15.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

16.

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

17.

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Macewan, Norman

21.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

22.

It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.

Mother Teresa

23.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

24.

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

Rohn, Jim

25.

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

Johnson, Dave

26.

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

Mckeun, Rod

27.

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

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28.

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

Jackson, Jesse

29.

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

30.

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

Lao-Tzu

31.

Let me be a little kinder, Let me be a little blinder To the faults about me; Let me praise a little more, Let me be, when I am weary; Just a little bit more cheery, Let me serve a little better Those that I am striving for. Let me be a little braver When temptation bids me waver, Let me strive a little harder To be all that I should be; Let me be a little meeker to the brother that is weaker; Let me think more of my neighbor and a little less of me.

32.

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

33.

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

Publilius Syrus

34.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

35.

It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.

Gibbs, Philip

36.

The real secret of happiness is not what you have or what you receive; it's what you share