Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

Best Quotes about Giving

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Munthe, Axel

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

Camus, Albert

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

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

Bible

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

When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.

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

Euripides

10.

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

11.

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

12.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Collier, Robert

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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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It is like the seed put in the soil -- the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

Marden, Orison Swett

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It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.

Gibbs, Philip

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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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Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

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If you continually give, you will continually have.

21.

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

Johnson, Dave

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

24.

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

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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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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.

31.

Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

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You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

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I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

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

Bible

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

Speare, Grace

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Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Reed, Scott

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

P. D. James

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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.