Motivational Quotes

Giving

You try to give away what you want yourself.

- Lois McMaster Bujold

Best Quotes about Giving

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Virgil

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Charles Dudley Warner

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

Reed, Scott

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

Young, Vash

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Hobbs, Herschel

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

10.

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

11.

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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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.

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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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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

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

Ross, Percy

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

Baughan, R.J.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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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

19.

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

20.

EARN as much as you can. SAVE as much as you can. INVEST as much as you can. GIVE as much as you can.

Wellesly, Rev. John

21.

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

Rogers, Will

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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

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He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

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

Peters, Thomas J.

25.

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

Munthe, Axel

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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.

27.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

30.

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

31.

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

Macewan, Norman

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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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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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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

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Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Lao-Tzu

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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

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Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

39.

You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

40.

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

42.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Mckeun, Rod

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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

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

Proverb

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.

John Wesley

50.

For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.