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

Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

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

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

Camus, Albert

For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Charles Dudley Warner

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

Canfield, Jack

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

10.

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

Edwards, Flora

11.

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

Ross, Percy

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Gibbs, Philip

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Lao-Tzu

18.

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

19.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

20.

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

Johnson, Dave

21.

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

Bible

22.

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

23.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

24.

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

Baughan, R.J.

25.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

26.

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.

27.

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

Lao-Tzu

28.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

32.

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

33.

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

Braunstein, Richard

34.

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

Gide, Andre

35.

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

36.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of oneself to others.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

37.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

38.

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

39.

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

40.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

41.

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

Ruskin, John

42.

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

43.

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

44.

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

45.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Bible

47.

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

48.

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

49.

You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

50.

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

Reed, Scott