Motivational Quotes

Giving

I wonder if it isn't just cowardice instead of generosity that makes us give tips.

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Giving

I wonder if it isn't just cowardice instead of generosity that makes us give tips.

Rogers, Will

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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

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

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

Bible

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

Speare, Grace

11.

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

12.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.

Sarton, May

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Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

15.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.

Seneca

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

Bunyan, John

19.

If you continually give, you will continually have.

20.

The real secret of happiness is not what you have or what you receive; it's what you share

21.

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

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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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Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

24.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

25.

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.

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

Jackson, Jesse

27.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

28.

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Meltzer, Bernard

30.

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

Charles Dudley Warner

31.

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

Mckeun, Rod

33.

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

Ross, Percy

34.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

35.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

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

Proverb

37.

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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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

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Give, and it shall be given to you. For whatever measure you deal out to others, it will be dealt to you in return.

Bible

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

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

Proverb, Chinese

44.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

45.

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

Anderson, Sparky

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

Euripides

48.

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

Collier, Robert

49.

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

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

Lao-Tzu