Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Best Quotes about Giving

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Anderson, Sparky

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

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

You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lao-Tzu

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

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

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

Johnson, Dave

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

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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

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

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Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Macewan, Norman

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You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give.

20.

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

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

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

Rogers, Will

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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]

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Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

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Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

39.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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Give light and people will find their own way.

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

Jackson, Jesse

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If you continually give, you will continually have.

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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

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

Speare, Grace

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

Proverb