Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Munthe, Axel

Best Quotes about Giving

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

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

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

Virgil

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

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

Rogers, Will

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

John Wesley

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

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

Mother Teresa

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

10.

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

11.

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

Bible

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

Camus, Albert

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

Charles Dudley Warner

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Lao-Tzu

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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The trick is to realize that after giving your best, there's nothing more to give.

Anderson, Sparky

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For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of forests. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high.

Macleod, Fiona

25.

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

Ross, Percy

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

Proverb, Chinese

27.

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

Gibbs, Philip

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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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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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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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Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

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

37.

Before he left, Aunt William pressed a sovereign into his hand guiltily, as if it were conscience money. He, on his side, took it as though it were a doctor's fee, and both ignored the transaction.

Leverson, Ada

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

Munthe, Axel

40.

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Macewan, Norman

42.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Canfield, Jack

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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

45.

Give light and people will find their own way.

46.

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

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

P. D. James

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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.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Braunstein, Richard