Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Speare, Grace

Best Quotes about Giving

1.

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

Publilius Syrus

2.

He who gives while he lives, get to know where it goes.

Ross, Percy

3.

If you continually give, you will continually have.

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

Proverb

7.

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

Euripides

8.

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

9.

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

10.

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Collier, Robert

14.

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

15.

Give and it shall be given unto you: good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over... [Luke 6:38]

Bible

16.

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

Gide, Andre

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

20.

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.

21.

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

22.

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

Andrus, Ethel Percy

23.

He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

Lao-Tzu

24.

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

25.

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

26.

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.

27.

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

Ruskin, John

28.

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

29.

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

Braunstein, Richard

30.

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

Graham, Billy

31.

You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

32.

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

33.

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.

34.

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

Johnson, Dave

35.

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

Bible

36.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

37.

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

38.

Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

39.

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

Edwards, Flora

40.

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

Hobbs, Herschel

41.

For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

42.

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

Williamson, Marianne

43.

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

44.

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

John Wesley

45.

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

46.

Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

47.

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

Eleanor Hamilton

48.

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

49.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

50.

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.