Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

Best Quotes about Giving

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

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

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

Bible

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

P. D. James

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

Andrus, Ethel Percy

If I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Proverb, Chinese

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Canfield, Jack

10.

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

11.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

12.

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

13.

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

Young, Vash

14.

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

15.

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

Camus, Albert

16.

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

17.

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

18.

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

19.

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

Lao-Tzu

20.

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

Bunyan, John

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

Mother Teresa

22.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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.

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

25.

Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

26.

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.

Addison, Joseph

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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

28.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

29.

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

Gide, Andre

30.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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

32.

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

Lao-Tzu

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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

34.

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Reed, Scott

37.

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

Macewan, Norman

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There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

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

Speare, Grace

40.

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

John Wesley

41.

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

42.

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

Gibbs, Philip

43.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

44.

You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

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