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

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Sheen, Fulton John

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

Mother Teresa

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

You must give to get, You must sow the seed, before you can reap the harvest.

Reed, Scott

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

Proverb

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

Andrus, Ethel Percy

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There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

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

Virgil

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Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

P. D. James

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

Ross, Percy

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Gibbs, Philip

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Give light and people will find their own way.

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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

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

Bible

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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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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Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Munthe, Axel

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

Baughan, R.J.

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

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Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

34.

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

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

Eleanor Hamilton

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

Gide, Andre

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

Collier, Robert

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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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To whom much is given is much required. [Luke 12:48]

Bible

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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

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

Speare, Grace

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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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Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

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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

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Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

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You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Johnson, Dave

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

Charles Dudley Warner