Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

Best Quotes about Giving

You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

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

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

Speare, Grace

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Johnson, Dave

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

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For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, while their present-giving instincts often remain in the undeveloped condition of their earlier days. Something showy and not-too-expensive in a shop is their only conception of the ideal gift.

Munro, Hector Hugh

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Gibbs, Philip

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

Rogers, Will

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Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Braunstein, Richard

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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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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

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Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

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

P. D. James

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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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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

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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

29.

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

Lao-Tzu

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

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He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Macewan, Norman

34.

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

Lao-Tzu

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Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

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

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Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

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Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

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The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.

Andrus, Ethel Percy

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Jackson, Jesse

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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

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