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

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

Ross, Percy

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

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

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

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

Gibbs, Philip

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

P. D. James

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

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

Reed, Scott

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

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

Sheen, Fulton John

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Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Speare, Grace

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

Young, Vash

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You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

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God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

Graham, Billy

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

Mckeun, Rod

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

Euripides

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Munthe, Axel

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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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The Liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself. [Proverbs 11.25]

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

Ruskin, John

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

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Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.

John Wesley

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

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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

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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

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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]

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