Motivational Quotes

Giving

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

- Publilius Syrus

Best Quotes about Giving

You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

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

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

Ross, Percy

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

Gibbs, Philip

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

Gide, Andre

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

Virgil

10.

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

11.

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

Munthe, Axel

12.

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

13.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

14.

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

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

15.

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

16.

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

Canfield, Jack

17.

It is like the seed put in the soil -- the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

Marden, Orison Swett

18.

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

19.

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

Lewis, C. S.

20.

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

21.

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

Camus, Albert

23.

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

Proverb

24.

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

25.

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

Bunyan, John

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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

28.

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

Charles Dudley Warner

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

Meltzer, Bernard

30.

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

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

Euripides

33.

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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

35.

Give light and people will find their own way.

36.

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

Young, Vash

37.

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

38.

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

Ruskin, John

39.

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

Macewan, Norman

40.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

41.

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

42.

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

Lao-Tzu

43.

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

44.

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

Lao-Tzu

45.

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.

46.

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

Rohn, Jim

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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]

Bible

48.

One man gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want. [Proverbs 11-24]

Bible

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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