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.

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

2.

If you continually give, you will continually have.

3.

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

Johnson, Dave

4.

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

Braunstein, Richard

5.

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

6.

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

Mother Teresa

7.

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

Canfield, Jack

8.

Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

9.

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

Proverb

10.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

11.

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

12.

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

Speare, Grace

13.

Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

14.

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

15.

There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.

Sarton, May

16.

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

17.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

18.

A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of forests. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high.

Macleod, Fiona

19.

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

Anderson, Sparky

20.

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

21.

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

22.

You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

23.

Give light and people will find their own way.

24.

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.

25.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

26.

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

27.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

28.

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

Eleanor Hamilton

29.

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

30.

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

Baughan, R.J.

31.

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

32.

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

Camus, Albert

33.

For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

34.

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

Edwards, Flora

35.

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

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

36.

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

Munthe, Axel

37.

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

Rohn, Jim

38.

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

Euripides

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Hobbs, Herschel

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.

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

P. D. James

45.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

46.

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

Williamson, Marianne

47.

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