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

1.

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

Mother Teresa

2.

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

3.

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

Jackson, Jesse

4.

Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

5.

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

6.

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

Lewis, C. S.

7.

Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

8.

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

Mckeun, Rod

9.

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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10.

Nature does not give to those who will not spend...

Baughan, R.J.

11.

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

12.

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

Lao-Tzu

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

16.

You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

17.

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

18.

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.

19.

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

Williamson, Marianne

20.

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

21.

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

Proverb, Chinese

22.

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

23.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

24.

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

25.

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

Robbins, Anthony

26.

There would be no advantage to be gained by sowing a field of wheat if the harvest did not return more than was sown.

Hill, Napoleon

27.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

28.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

29.

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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30.

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

31.

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

32.

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

33.

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

34.

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

Gide, Andre

35.

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

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36.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

37.

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

38.

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

Munthe, Axel

39.

You have to sow before you can reap. You have to give before you can get.

Collier, Robert

40.

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

Macewan, Norman

41.

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

Proverb

42.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

43.

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

Gibbs, Philip

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

47.

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

48.

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

Hobbs, Herschel

49.

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

50.

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord