Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Giving

1.

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

2.

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

Charles Dudley Warner

3.

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

Publilius Syrus

7.

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

Lao-Tzu

8.

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

9.

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

10.

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

Speare, Grace

11.

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

12.

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

13.

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Canfield, Jack

18.

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

19.

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

Edwards, Flora

20.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

21.

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

22.

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

Rogers, Will

23.

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

Munthe, Axel

24.

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

Euripides

25.

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

Macewan, Norman

26.

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

Proverb, Chinese

27.

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

Virgil

28.

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

29.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

30.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

31.

Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

32.

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

33.

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

Mother Teresa

34.

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

Graham, Billy

35.

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

Young, Vash

36.

Before he left, Aunt William pressed a sovereign into his hand guiltily, as if it were conscience money. He, on his side, took it as though it were a doctor's fee, and both ignored the transaction.

Leverson, Ada

37.

Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

38.

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

39.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

40.

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

41.

The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them.

Mckeun, Rod

42.

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

43.

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

Gibbs, Philip

44.

The big print giveth, and the fine print taketh away.

Sheen, Fulton John

45.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

46.

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

47.

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

48.

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

Robbins, Anthony

49.

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

50.

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