Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

Best Quotes about Giving

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

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.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

Charles Dudley Warner

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

Gide, Andre

Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

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

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

Canfield, Jack

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

Ross, Percy

10.

If you continually give, you will continually have.

11.

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

Virgil

12.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

13.

He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.

Bunyan, John

14.

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

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15.

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

Braunstein, Richard

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

19.

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

Johnson, Dave

20.

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

21.

No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

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23.

We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving

Meltzer, Bernard

24.

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

Munthe, Axel

25.

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

Proverb

26.

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

P. D. James

27.

Give a lot, expect a lot, and if you don't get it, prune.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

29.

You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

30.

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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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

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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 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

34.

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

Eleanor Hamilton

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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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Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

37.

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

38.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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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

40.

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

Reed, Scott

41.

Nature does not give to those who will not spend...

Baughan, R.J.

42.

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

Speare, Grace

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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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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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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

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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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He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

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

Graham, Billy

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

Sheen, Fulton John

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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.