Motivational Quotes

Giving

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

- Nightingale, Earl

Best Quotes about Giving

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

4.

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

5.

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

Williamson, Marianne

6.

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

7.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

8.

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

9.

You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

10.

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.

11.

Give light and people will find their own way.

12.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

13.

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

Young, Vash

14.

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

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Euripides

19.

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

Hobbs, Herschel

20.

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

Camus, Albert

21.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

22.

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

Lao-Tzu

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

26.

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

John Wesley

27.

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

Bunyan, John

28.

If you continually give, you will continually have.

29.

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

30.

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

31.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

32.

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

Eleanor Hamilton

33.

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

Ruskin, John

34.

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

35.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

36.

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

Proverb, Chinese

37.

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

Proverb

38.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

39.

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

Bible

40.

Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting.

Meltzer, Bernard

41.

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

Rogers, Will

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

46.

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

Baughan, R.J.

47.

You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

48.

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