Motivational Quotes

Giving

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Giving

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

Baughan, R.J.

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

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

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

Bible

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

Give light and people will find their own way.

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

10.

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

11.

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

Graham, Billy

12.

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

Johnson, Dave

13.

The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them.

Mckeun, Rod

14.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

15.

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

16.

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

Eleanor Hamilton

17.

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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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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Proverb

23.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

24.

Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

25.

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

26.

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

Bunyan, John

29.

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

30.

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

31.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

32.

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

Bible

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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There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.

Euripides

35.

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

Reed, Scott

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

Robbins, Anthony

37.

Give little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

Ruskin, John

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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

39.

The big print giveth, and the fine print taketh away.

Sheen, Fulton John

40.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

41.

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

P. D. James

42.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

43.

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

44.

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

Speare, Grace

45.

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

46.

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

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You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

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

Young, Vash