Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Meltzer, Bernard

Best Quotes about Giving

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Reed, Scott

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

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

Braunstein, Richard

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Williamson, Marianne

Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

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Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

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

Gibbs, Philip

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Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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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

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

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

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Let each one do just as he has purposed in his heart; not grudgingly or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver. [2 Corinthians 9:7]

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Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

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You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

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You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Ross, Percy

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

John Wesley

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Give light and people will find their own way.

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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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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

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Canfield, Jack

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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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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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God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

Graham, Billy

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

Euripides

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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Give, and it shall be given to you. For whatever measure you deal out to others, it will be dealt to you in return.

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