Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

Best Quotes about Giving

1.

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

2.

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

Hobbs, Herschel

3.

You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

4.

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

5.

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

Braunstein, Richard

6.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

7.

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

8.

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

9.

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

10.

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

11.

Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Johnson, Dave

15.

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

Eleanor Hamilton

16.

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

Macewan, Norman

17.

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

18.

Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

19.

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

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20.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

21.

Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

22.

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

23.

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

Williamson, Marianne

24.

If you continually give, you will continually have.

25.

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

Virgil

26.

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

Jackson, Jesse

27.

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

Mother Teresa

28.

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

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29.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Speare, Grace

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.

34.

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

35.

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

36.

EARN as much as you can. SAVE as much as you can. INVEST as much as you can. GIVE as much as you can.

Wellesly, Rev. John

37.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

38.

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

Ruskin, John

39.

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

Edwards, Flora

40.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

41.

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

42.

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

Reed, Scott

43.

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

44.

Give and it shall be given unto you: good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over... [Luke 6:38]

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45.

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

Baughan, R.J.

46.

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

Rogers, Will

47.

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

48.

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

Charles Dudley Warner

49.

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

Euripides

50.

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