Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

Best Quotes about Giving

1.

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

Baughan, R.J.

2.

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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3.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

4.

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

John Wesley

5.

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

Eleanor Hamilton

6.

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

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

Proverb

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Andrus, Ethel Percy

14.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

15.

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

Rohn, Jim

16.

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

Rogers, Will

17.

Give light and people will find their own way.

18.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

19.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

20.

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

Virgil

21.

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

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22.

For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

23.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

24.

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

Robbins, Anthony

25.

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

26.

You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

27.

He who gives while he lives, get to know where it goes.

Ross, Percy

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.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

30.

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

Edwards, Flora

31.

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

Canfield, Jack

32.

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

33.

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

34.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

Charles Dudley Warner

35.

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

Hobbs, Herschel

36.

The trick is to realize that after giving your best, there's nothing more to give.

Anderson, Sparky

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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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40.

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

41.

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

42.

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

43.

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

44.

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

45.

Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

46.

You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

47.

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

Graham, Billy

48.

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

Lao-Tzu