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.

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

Eleanor Hamilton

2.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

3.

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

4.

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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5.

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

6.

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

Williamson, Marianne

7.

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

Hobbs, Herschel

8.

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

Camus, Albert

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

P. D. James

12.

He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

13.

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

14.

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

Speare, Grace

15.

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

16.

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

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17.

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

Proverb, Chinese

18.

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

19.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

20.

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

Canfield, Jack

21.

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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22.

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

23.

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

Rogers, Will

24.

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

25.

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.

26.

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

Mckeun, Rod

27.

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

28.

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

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29.

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

Macewan, Norman

30.

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

Anderson, Sparky

31.

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

Collier, Robert

32.

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

33.

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

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.

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

Mother Teresa

36.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

37.

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Lewis, C. S.

42.

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

43.

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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44.

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

Gibbs, Philip

45.

Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

46.

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

Johnson, Dave

47.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

48.

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

Bunyan, John

49.

If you continually give, you will continually have.

50.

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.