Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Mckeun, Rod

Best Quotes about Giving

If you continually give, you will continually have.

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Collier, Robert

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

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

Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

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

10.

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

11.

You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

12.

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

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

Euripides

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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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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.

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We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.

La Fontaine, Jean De

18.

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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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

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

Munthe, Axel

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When you're nice to people, they want to be nice back to you.

Canfield, Jack

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

Ross, Percy

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

Lao-Tzu

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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

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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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For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

31.

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

Rogers, Will

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

John Wesley

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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

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Edwards, Flora

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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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Gifts allow us to demonstrate exactly how little we know about a person. And nothing pisses a person off more than being shoved into the wrong pigeonhole.

Pam Davis

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Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Speare, Grace

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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

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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.