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

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

Ross, Percy

In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.

Edwards, Flora

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

Hobbs, Herschel

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

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Sheen, Fulton John

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Rohn, Jim

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

10.

You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

11.

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

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

12.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Marden, Orison Swett

14.

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

15.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

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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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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.

18.

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

Johnson, Dave

19.

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

Proverb

20.

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

21.

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

23.

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

Charles Dudley Warner

25.

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

Gibbs, Philip

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I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

27.

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

Williamson, Marianne

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

Bunyan, John

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

Gide, Andre

30.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Young, Vash

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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

33.

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Baughan, R.J.

35.

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

36.

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

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Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

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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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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

40.

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

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We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

Seneca

44.

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

Bible

45.

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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Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

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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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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

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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