Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

Best Quotes about Giving

1.

Give, and it shall be given to you. For whatever measure you deal out to others, it will be dealt to you in return.

Bible

2.

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

Rohn, Jim

3.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

4.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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

8.

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

Lao-Tzu

9.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

10.

A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.

Publilius Syrus

11.

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

12.

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

13.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

14.

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

15.

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

Bible

16.

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

17.

You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

18.

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

Andrus, Ethel Percy

19.

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

20.

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

21.

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

22.

We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.

La Fontaine, Jean De

23.

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

Hobbs, Herschel

24.

Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

25.

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

26.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

27.

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

Lewis, C. S.

28.

Trust not the horse, O Trojans. Be it what it may, I fear the Grecians even when they offer gifts.

Virgil

29.

If you continually give, you will continually have.

30.

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

31.

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

32.

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

Ross, Percy

33.

A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver.

Eleanor Hamilton

34.

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.

35.

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

Charles Dudley Warner

36.

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

37.

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.

Robbins, Anthony

38.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

39.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

40.

Give and it shall be given unto you: good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over... [Luke 6:38]

Bible

41.

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

42.

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

Bible

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

46.

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

47.

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

Munthe, Axel

48.

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

P. D. James

49.

For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

50.

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