Motivational Quotes

Giving

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

- Nightingale, Earl

Best Quotes about Giving

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

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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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

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

Sheen, Fulton John

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

Edwards, Flora

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

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

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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To whom much is given is much required. [Luke 12:48]

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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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Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

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

Virgil

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The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

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

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

Canfield, Jack

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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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Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

23.

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

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He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

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

Publilius Syrus

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It is more blessed to give than to receive. [Acts 20:35]

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

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Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

Lewis, C. S.

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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

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Jackson, Jesse

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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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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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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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The Liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself. [Proverbs 11.25]

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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