Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Giving

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

Euripides

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

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

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

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

Johnson, Dave

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

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

Gide, Andre

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

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

Mother Teresa

10.

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

Graham, Billy

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

14.

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

P. D. James

15.

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

16.

If you continually give, you will continually have.

17.

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

Lao-Tzu

18.

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

19.

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

20.

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

Hobbs, Herschel

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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

22.

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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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

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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

25.

Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

26.

You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

27.

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

Baughan, R.J.

28.

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

Canfield, Jack

29.

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

Collier, Robert

30.

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

Robbins, Anthony

31.

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

34.

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

35.

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

Proverb

37.

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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Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Bible

40.

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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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.

42.

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

43.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.

Publilius Syrus

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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

46.

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

John Wesley

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Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

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

Bible

50.

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

Mckeun, Rod