Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- P. D. James

Best Quotes about Giving

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

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

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

Graham, Billy

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

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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

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

Camus, Albert

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

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

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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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Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

11.

You cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually giving -- and getting. You cannot hold on to your seed. You must sow it -- and reap anew. You cannot hold on to riches. You must use them and get other riches in return.

Collier, Robert

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

Gide, Andre

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

Euripides

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Canfield, Jack

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

Munthe, Axel

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

Mother Teresa

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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

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Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

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

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

Baughan, R.J.

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Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Bunyan, John

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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

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

Gibbs, Philip

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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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33.

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

Proverb

34.

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

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You must give to get, You must sow the seed, before you can reap the harvest.

Reed, Scott

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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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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

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

John Wesley

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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He that loveth, flieth, runneth, and rejoiceth. He is free, and cannot be held in. He giveth all for all, and hath all in all, because he resteth in one highest above all things, from whom all that is good flows and proceeds.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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