Motivational Quotes

Giving

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Giving

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

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

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

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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]

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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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Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

John Wesley

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

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

Andrus, Ethel Percy

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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

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I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

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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 manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

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It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving.

Braunstein, Richard

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Give light and people will find their own way.

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

Rogers, Will

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You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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The trick is to realize that after giving your best, there's nothing more to give.

Anderson, Sparky

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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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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.

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

Proverb

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

Speare, Grace

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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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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

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

Mckeun, Rod

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

Collier, Robert

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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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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

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

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You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Johnson, Dave

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Charles Dudley Warner

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Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

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

Lao-Tzu

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A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.

Jackson, Jesse