Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Publilius Syrus

Best Quotes about Giving

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

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

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

Andrus, Ethel Percy

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

Lao-Tzu

Give light and people will find their own way.

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

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

Anderson, Sparky

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The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Mckeun, Rod

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You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

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

Johnson, Dave

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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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You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Ruskin, John

18.

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

Bible

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

John Wesley

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Gifts allow us to demonstrate exactly how little we know about a person. And nothing pisses a person off more than being shoved into the wrong pigeonhole.

Pam Davis

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

Eleanor Hamilton

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

Canfield, Jack

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

25.

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

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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

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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

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

Lewis, C. S.

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Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Jackson, Jesse

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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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Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Mother Teresa