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

1.

You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

2.

Give light and people will find their own way.

3.

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

4.

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

5.

Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

6.

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

Ruskin, John

7.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

8.

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

Edwards, Flora

9.

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

10.

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

Rogers, Will

11.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

12.

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

Speare, Grace

13.

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

14.

Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

15.

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

16.

The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.

Tracy, Brian

17.

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

Canfield, Jack

18.

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

19.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

20.

You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

21.

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

Graham, Billy

22.

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

23.

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

Collier, Robert

24.

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

Euripides

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Jackson, Jesse

28.

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

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

29.

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

Hobbs, Herschel

30.

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

31.

Give and it shall be given unto you: good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over... [Luke 6:38]

Bible

32.

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

33.

Nature does not give to those who will not spend...

Baughan, R.J.

34.

He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

35.

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

Gide, Andre

36.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

37.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

38.

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

Virgil

39.

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

Braunstein, Richard

40.

I have always noticed that a man who gives the most for the money, gets the most business.

Young, Vash

41.

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

42.

Giving half answers won't make the conversation half as long.

Johnson, Dave

43.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

44.

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

45.

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