Motivational Quotes

Giving

A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of forests. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high.

- Macleod, Fiona

Best Quotes about Giving

1.

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

2.

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

Munthe, Axel

3.

You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

4.

Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

5.

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

Lewis, C. S.

6.

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

Eleanor Hamilton

7.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

8.

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

Gide, Andre

9.

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

Rogers, Will

10.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

11.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

12.

Give light and people will find their own way.

13.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

14.

Give little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

Ruskin, John

15.

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

Bible

16.

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

Robbins, Anthony

17.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

18.

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

19.

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

Charles Dudley Warner

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

23.

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

24.

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.

25.

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

26.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

27.

A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.

Jackson, Jesse

28.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of oneself to others.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

29.

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

30.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

31.

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

32.

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

Lao-Tzu

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Collier, Robert

38.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

39.

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

Publilius Syrus

40.

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.

41.

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

P. D. James

42.

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

43.

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

Ross, Percy

44.

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

Proverb, Chinese

45.

He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

46.

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

Mckeun, Rod

47.

The real secret of happiness is not what you have or what you receive; it's what you share

48.

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

49.

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

Baughan, R.J.

50.

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

Camus, Albert