Motivational Quotes

Giving

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.

Best Quotes about Giving

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.

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

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

You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

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

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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

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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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Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

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

14.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Rogers, Will

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He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

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

Bible

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Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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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

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In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.

Edwards, Flora

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

Williamson, Marianne

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

Euripides

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Ruskin, John

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You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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.

Hill, Napoleon

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Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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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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For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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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

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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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

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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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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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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

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

Hobbs, Herschel

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

Camus, Albert

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

Canfield, Jack

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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

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

Munthe, Axel

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Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel