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

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

Braunstein, Richard

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

Publilius Syrus

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Edwards, Flora

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

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

Lao-Tzu

If you continually give, you will continually have.

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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Hobbs, Herschel

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Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

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

Jackson, Jesse

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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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Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Ross, Percy

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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

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You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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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 manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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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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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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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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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

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For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Gibbs, Philip

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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

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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

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

John Wesley

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Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Reed, Scott

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

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

Munthe, Axel

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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