Motivational Quotes

Giving

It is like the seed put in the soil -- the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Giving

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Speare, Grace

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

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

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

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

Ross, Percy

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

Graham, Billy

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

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

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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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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.

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He that loveth, flieth, runneth, and rejoiceth. He is free, and cannot be held in. He giveth all for all, and hath all in all, because he resteth in one highest above all things, from whom all that is good flows and proceeds.

Kempis, Thomas

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Give light and people will find their own way.

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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

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

P. D. James

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

Braunstein, Richard

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

Macewan, Norman

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

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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]

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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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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

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Charles Dudley Warner

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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

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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

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

Ruskin, John

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

Mckeun, Rod

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

Lao-Tzu

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

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The Dead Sea is the dead sea, because it continually receives and never gives.

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

Camus, Albert

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Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

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You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

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Before he left, Aunt William pressed a sovereign into his hand guiltily, as if it were conscience money. He, on his side, took it as though it were a doctor's fee, and both ignored the transaction.

Leverson, Ada

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

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

Collier, Robert

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

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Anderson, Sparky

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You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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If you continually give, you will continually have.

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

Gide, Andre

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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

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

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