Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Macewan, Norman

Best Quotes about Giving

1.

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

Ross, Percy

2.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

3.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

4.

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

Mother Teresa

5.

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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6.

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

Macewan, Norman

7.

To whom much is given is much required. [Luke 12:48]

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8.

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

Publilius Syrus

9.

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

10.

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

Proverb

11.

You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

15.

Give, and it shall be given to you. For whatever measure you deal out to others, it will be dealt to you in return.

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16.

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

Williamson, Marianne

17.

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

18.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

19.

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

20.

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

Gibbs, Philip

21.

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

22.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

23.

The trick is to realize that after giving your best, there's nothing more to give.

Anderson, Sparky

24.

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

25.

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

Lao-Tzu

26.

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

Graham, Billy

27.

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

Johnson, Dave

28.

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

29.

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]

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30.

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

31.

Give and it shall be given unto you: good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over... [Luke 6:38]

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32.

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

33.

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

Munthe, Axel

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

37.

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

Lao-Tzu

38.

Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

39.

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

Collier, Robert

40.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

41.

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

Euripides

42.

Do unto the other feller the way he'd like to do unto you, and do it fast.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

43.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

44.

All that this world knows of living lies in giving -- and more giving; He that keeps, be sure he loses -Friendship grows by what it uses.

Maclaren, Alexander

45.

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

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46.

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

47.

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

Lewis, C. S.

48.

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

49.

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

Young, Vash

50.

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

Charles Dudley Warner