Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

Best Quotes about Giving

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

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.

Andrus, Ethel Percy

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

Camus, Albert

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

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

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

Mother Teresa

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

Graham, Billy

12.

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

Rogers, Will

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Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.

Rohn, Jim

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

Speare, Grace

15.

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

16.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

17.

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

Proverb, Chinese

18.

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

Bunyan, John

19.

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

Gibbs, Philip

20.

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

21.

If you continually give, you will continually have.

22.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

23.

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

Canfield, Jack

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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

25.

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

26.

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

Collier, Robert

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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.

28.

Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

29.

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

Bible

30.

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

31.

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

Ross, Percy

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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

33.

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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He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

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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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Let me be a little kinder, Let me be a little blinder To the faults about me; Let me praise a little more, Let me be, when I am weary; Just a little bit more cheery, Let me serve a little better Those that I am striving for. Let me be a little braver When temptation bids me waver, Let me strive a little harder To be all that I should be; Let me be a little meeker to the brother that is weaker; Let me think more of my neighbor and a little less of me.

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

Bible

38.

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

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

Reed, Scott

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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

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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

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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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

45.

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Charles Dudley Warner

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

Braunstein, Richard

48.

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

Virgil

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

P. D. James