Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Lao-Tzu

Best Quotes about 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

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Munthe, Axel

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

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

Give light and people will find their own way.

Trust not the horse, O Trojans. Be it what it may, I fear the Grecians even when they offer gifts.

Virgil

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

10.

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

Lao-Tzu

11.

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.

Robbins, Anthony

12.

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

Publilius Syrus

13.

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

Euripides

14.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

15.

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

16.

One man gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want. [Proverbs 11-24]

Bible

17.

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

Williamson, Marianne

18.

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

19.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

20.

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

Andrus, Ethel Percy

21.

If you continually give, you will continually have.

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Gide, Andre

25.

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

Canfield, Jack

26.

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

Mckeun, Rod

27.

There would be no advantage to be gained by sowing a field of wheat if the harvest did not return more than was sown.

Hill, Napoleon

28.

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

Hobbs, Herschel

29.

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

Reed, Scott

30.

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

31.

For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

32.

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

33.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

34.

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

Mother Teresa

35.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

36.

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

37.

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

38.

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

Lao-Tzu

39.

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.

Camus, Albert

40.

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

41.

You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

42.

Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

43.

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

P. D. James

44.

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

45.

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

46.

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

Eleanor Hamilton

47.

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

48.

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

Graham, Billy

49.

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

Proverb, Chinese

50.

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