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

Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of oneself to others.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Mother Teresa

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

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

Rogers, Will

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.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

10.

Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Speare, Grace

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He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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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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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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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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Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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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 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.

Johnson, Dave

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Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

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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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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.

30.

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

Reed, Scott

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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

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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

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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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The nine-tenths prove man's love, but the one-tenth tests man's legal obedience.

Hobbs, Herschel

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You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

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We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving

Meltzer, Bernard

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

41.

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

Collier, Robert

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

Graham, Billy

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

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You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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