Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Giving

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

Bible

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

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

Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

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

Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.

Euripides

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

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

10.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

11.

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

12.

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

Mother Teresa

13.

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

14.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

19.

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

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

20.

You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

21.

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

Speare, Grace

22.

You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

23.

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

24.

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

25.

One man gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want. [Proverbs 11-24]

Bible

26.

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

P. D. James

27.

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

Anderson, Sparky

28.

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

Ross, Percy

29.

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

30.

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.

31.

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

Bible

32.

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

Charles Dudley Warner

33.

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

Bunyan, John

34.

Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.

John Wesley

35.

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

Collier, Robert

36.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

37.

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

38.

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

39.

Why is it no one ever sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get one perfect rose.

Parker, Dorothy

40.

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

Andrus, Ethel Percy

41.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

42.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

43.

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

44.

Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

45.

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

Proverb

46.

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

Camus, Albert

47.

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

Publilius Syrus

48.

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

49.

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

Williamson, Marianne