Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Giving

Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

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

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

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

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

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

P. D. James

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

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

Hobbs, Herschel

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Canfield, Jack

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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

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Williamson, Marianne

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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

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

Braunstein, Richard

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

Bible

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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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Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

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Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

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

Gibbs, Philip

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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

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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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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

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

Lao-Tzu

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We must give more in order to get more, It is the generous giving of ourselves that produce the generous harvest.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Do unto the other feller the way he'd like to do unto you, and do it fast.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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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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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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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

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

Charles Dudley Warner

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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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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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If you continually give, you will continually have.

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

Anderson, Sparky

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Sheen, Fulton John

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Munthe, Axel

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

Ross, Percy

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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