Motivational Quotes

Giving

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Giving

1.

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

2.

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

Proverb

3.

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

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

4.

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

Ruskin, John

5.

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

6.

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

Lao-Tzu

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

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.

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

12.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

13.

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

14.

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

15.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

16.

Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

17.

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

Hobbs, Herschel

18.

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

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.

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

Rohn, Jim

21.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

22.

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

Young, Vash

23.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

24.

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

Johnson, Dave

25.

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

26.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

27.

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

John Wesley

28.

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

29.

If you continually give, you will continually have.

30.

Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

31.

In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.

Edwards, Flora

32.

You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

33.

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

34.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

35.

You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

36.

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

37.

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

38.

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

Mckeun, Rod

39.

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

Camus, Albert

40.

He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

41.

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

Bible

42.

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

Proverb, Chinese

43.

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

Robbins, Anthony

44.

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.

45.

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

Publilius Syrus

46.

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

47.

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Sheen, Fulton John