Motivational Quotes

Giving

Giving is true having.

- Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Best Quotes about Giving

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

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

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

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Marden, Orison Swett

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

John Wesley

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

10.

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

Jackson, Jesse

11.

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

Speare, Grace

12.

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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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

14.

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

Reed, Scott

15.

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

Johnson, Dave

16.

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

Williamson, Marianne

17.

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

Rogers, Will

18.

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Publilius Syrus

20.

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

Gibbs, Philip

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

Graham, Billy

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Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

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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

25.

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

Bible

26.

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

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

28.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

29.

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

30.

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

31.

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

33.

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

Bible

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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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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 more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

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

39.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

40.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Proverb

42.

You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

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Before he left, Aunt William pressed a sovereign into his hand guiltily, as if it were conscience money. He, on his side, took it as though it were a doctor's fee, and both ignored the transaction.

Leverson, Ada

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

Bible

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

Ruskin, John

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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.

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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

49.

When you're nice to people, they want to be nice back to you.

Canfield, Jack

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Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl