Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Giving

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

Ross, Percy

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

Andrus, Ethel Percy

All that this world knows of living lies in giving -- and more giving; He that keeps, be sure he loses -Friendship grows by what it uses.

Maclaren, Alexander

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

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

Ruskin, John

For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

Lewis, C. S.

He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

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The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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

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Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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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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18.

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

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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

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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

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

Young, Vash

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God has given to all men free agency and has granted us the privilege to serve Him or serve Him not, to do that which is right or that which is wrong, but he will hold us strictly to an account for the use that we make of this agency.

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What we are doing is satisfying the American public. That's our job. I always say we have to give most of the people what they want most of the time. That's what they expect from us.

Paley, William

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Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

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You must give to get, You must sow the seed, before you can reap the harvest.

Reed, Scott

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

Gibbs, Philip

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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.

30.

Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

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

Edwards, Flora

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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

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

Macewan, Norman

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There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

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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]

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It is more blessed to give than to receive. [Acts 20:35]

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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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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

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

P. D. James

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

Lao-Tzu

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If you continually give, you will continually have.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Graham, Billy

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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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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

Speare, Grace

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

Beecher, Henry Ward