Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Lao-Tzu

Best Quotes about Giving

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

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

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

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

Reed, Scott

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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

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Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

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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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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

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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Ross, Percy

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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

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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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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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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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There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

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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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You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

John Wesley

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

Gibbs, Philip

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

Proverb, Chinese

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We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

Seneca

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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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Give light and people will find their own way.

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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

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

Speare, Grace

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Do unto the other feller the way he'd like to do unto you, and do it fast.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Anderson, Sparky

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

Munthe, Axel

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

Bible

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

Braunstein, Richard

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

Euripides

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

Ruskin, John

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You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

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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 manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord