Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Best Quotes about Giving

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

Baughan, R.J.

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Collier, Robert

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

Bible

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

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

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

Andrus, Ethel Percy

10.

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

11.

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

12.

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

Rohn, Jim

13.

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

14.

When you're nice to people, they want to be nice back to you.

Canfield, Jack

15.

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

Bible

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Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

17.

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

18.

It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving.

Braunstein, Richard

19.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

20.

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

21.

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.

22.

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

Graham, Billy

23.

I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.

Lewis, C. S.

24.

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.

Camus, Albert

25.

No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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

27.

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

28.

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

29.

Do unto the other feller the way he'd like to do unto you, and do it fast.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

30.

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

31.

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

Lao-Tzu

32.

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

Charles Dudley Warner

33.

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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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

35.

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

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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

37.

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

Gide, Andre

38.

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

Anderson, Sparky

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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

40.

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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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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Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

43.

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

44.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.