Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Sheen, Fulton John

Best Quotes about Giving

1.

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

2.

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

Rogers, Will

3.

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

Gide, Andre

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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

P. D. James

8.

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

Speare, Grace

9.

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

10.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

11.

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Robbins, Anthony

15.

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

16.

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

Virgil

17.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

18.

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

Mckeun, Rod

19.

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

Bible

20.

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

21.

Give a lot, expect a lot, and if you don't get it, prune.

Peters, Thomas J.

22.

I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.

Lewis, C. S.

23.

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

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

24.

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

Reed, Scott

25.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

26.

You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

32.

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

John Wesley

33.

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

Proverb, Chinese

34.

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

Eleanor Hamilton

35.

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

Publilius Syrus

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Braunstein, Richard

39.

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

40.

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

Bible

41.

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

42.

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

Proverb

43.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

44.

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

Johnson, Dave

45.

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.