Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Mother Teresa

Best Quotes about Giving

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

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

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

Rogers, Will

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

Hobbs, Herschel

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

Camus, Albert

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

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

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You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

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Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

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

P. D. James

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You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Sheen, Fulton John

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

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I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

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

Williamson, Marianne

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

Munthe, Axel

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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.

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

Bible

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Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.

Rohn, Jim

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

Eleanor Hamilton

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

John Wesley

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

Bunyan, John

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

Peters, Thomas J.

31.

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

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The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Euripides

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

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

Mother Teresa

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The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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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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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]

Bible

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

Lao-Tzu

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Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

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

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

Macewan, Norman

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

Proverb