Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

Best Quotes about Giving

1.

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.

Robbins, Anthony

2.

EARN as much as you can. SAVE as much as you can. INVEST as much as you can. GIVE as much as you can.

Wellesly, Rev. John

3.

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

Rohn, Jim

5.

Do unto the other feller the way he'd like to do unto you, and do it fast.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

6.

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

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7.

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

Speare, Grace

8.

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

Mother Teresa

11.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

12.

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

Camus, Albert

13.

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

14.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

15.

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

16.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

17.

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

18.

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

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19.

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

20.

Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

21.

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

P. D. James

22.

Give light and people will find their own way.

23.

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

Baughan, R.J.

24.

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

Williamson, Marianne

25.

Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

26.

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

Macewan, Norman

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Let me be a little kinder, Let me be a little blinder To the faults about me; Let me praise a little more, Let me be, when I am weary; Just a little bit more cheery, Let me serve a little better Those that I am striving for. Let me be a little braver When temptation bids me waver, Let me strive a little harder To be all that I should be; Let me be a little meeker to the brother that is weaker; Let me think more of my neighbor and a little less of me.

28.

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

29.

You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

30.

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

Graham, Billy

31.

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

32.

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

Johnson, Dave

33.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

34.

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.

35.

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

36.

There never was a person who did anything worth doing, who did not receive more than he gave.

Beecher, Henry Ward

37.

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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38.

You can no more give what you haven't learned than you can come back from a place you've never been.

39.

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

40.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

41.

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

42.

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

Hobbs, Herschel

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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

44.

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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45.

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

Rogers, Will

46.

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

Munthe, Axel

47.

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