Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Lewis, C. S.

Best Quotes about Giving

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

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

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

Mckeun, Rod

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

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

Bible

For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

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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

11.

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

Ross, Percy

12.

You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

13.

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

Young, Vash

14.

Give light and people will find their own way.

15.

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

Munthe, Axel

16.

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

Collier, Robert

17.

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

18.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

19.

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

Speare, Grace

20.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

21.

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

22.

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

23.

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

Edwards, Flora

24.

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

Bible

25.

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

Canfield, Jack

26.

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

Robbins, Anthony

27.

A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses.

Proverb

28.

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

Reed, Scott

29.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

30.

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

31.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

32.

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

Hobbs, Herschel

33.

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

Johnson, Dave

34.

Let each one do just as he has purposed in his heart; not grudgingly or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver. [2 Corinthians 9:7]

Bible

35.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

36.

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

37.

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

Williamson, Marianne

38.

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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Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting.

Meltzer, Bernard

40.

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

Bible

41.

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

Ruskin, John

42.

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

Mother Teresa

43.

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

44.

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

Andrus, Ethel Percy

45.

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

Macewan, Norman

46.

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

47.

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

48.

You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.

Albert Schweitzer

49.

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

Gibbs, Philip

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Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.