Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Giving

1.

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

Proverb, Chinese

2.

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

P. D. James

3.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

4.

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

5.

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

Gide, Andre

6.

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

Munthe, Axel

7.

Give, and it shall be given to you. For whatever measure you deal out to others, it will be dealt to you in return.

Bible

8.

You have to sow before you can reap. You have to give before you can get.

Collier, Robert

9.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

10.

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

Andrus, Ethel Percy

11.

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

12.

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

Lao-Tzu

13.

If you continually give, you will continually have.

14.

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

Ross, Percy

15.

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

Bunyan, John

16.

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

17.

I have always noticed that a man who gives the most for the money, gets the most business.

Young, Vash

18.

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

Johnson, Dave

19.

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

Williamson, Marianne

20.

Give little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

Ruskin, John

21.

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

22.

For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

23.

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

Hobbs, Herschel

24.

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

25.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

26.

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

27.

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

Braunstein, Richard

28.

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

Lao-Tzu

29.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

30.

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

31.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

32.

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

Anderson, Sparky

33.

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

Proverb

34.

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

35.

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

Baughan, R.J.

36.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

37.

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

38.

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

Bible

39.

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

Camus, Albert

40.

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

41.

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

Speare, Grace

42.

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

Charles Dudley Warner

43.

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

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]

Bible

45.

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

46.

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

Virgil

47.

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

Publilius Syrus

48.

Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

49.

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

Jackson, Jesse