Motivational Quotes

Giving

Giving opens the way for receiving.

- Shinn, Florence Scovel

Best Quotes about Giving

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

Johnson, Dave

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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Marden, Orison Swett

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Lao-Tzu

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

P. D. James

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

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

10.

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

Munthe, Axel

11.

You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

12.

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

Bible

13.

The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.

Baltasar Gracian

14.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

15.

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

Andrus, Ethel Percy

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Bunyan, John

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.

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

Gibbs, Philip

21.

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

22.

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

Collier, Robert

23.

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

24.

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

25.

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

26.

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

Bible

27.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

28.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

29.

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

30.

For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

36.

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

37.

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

Mckeun, Rod

38.

If you continually give, you will continually have.

39.

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

Proverb, Chinese

40.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

41.

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.

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Hobbs, Herschel

46.

If I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed.

Williamson, Marianne

47.

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

48.

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

Eleanor Hamilton

49.

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

50.

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

Proverb