Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

Best Quotes about Giving

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

Virgil

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

P. D. James

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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

Bible

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

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

Ross, Percy

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

10.

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

Lewis, C. S.

11.

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

12.

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

Gibbs, Philip

13.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

14.

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

15.

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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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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Give light and people will find their own way.

18.

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

Eleanor Hamilton

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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.

20.

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

Charles Dudley Warner

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You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

22.

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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You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give.

24.

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

Mckeun, Rod

26.

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

27.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Proverb, Chinese

30.

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

Canfield, Jack

31.

There never was a person who did anything worth doing, who did not receive more than he gave.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Munthe, Axel

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Rohn, Jim

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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

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For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

38.

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

Lao-Tzu

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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

40.

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

41.

If you continually give, you will continually have.

42.

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

Speare, Grace

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Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

44.

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

Macewan, Norman

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Munro, Hector Hugh

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The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

Ford, Henry

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

48.

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

Braunstein, Richard

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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