Motivational Quotes

Giving

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

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Best Quotes about Giving

1.

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

2.

Do unto the other feller the way he'd like to do unto you, and do it fast.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

3.

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

4.

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

Johnson, Dave

5.

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

Lewis, C. S.

6.

The trick is to realize that after giving your best, there's nothing more to give.

Anderson, Sparky

7.

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

Graham, Billy

8.

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

Collier, Robert

9.

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

P. D. James

10.

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

11.

He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

15.

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

Gide, Andre

16.

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

Proverb, Chinese

17.

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

John Wesley

18.

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

19.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

20.

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

Bible

21.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

22.

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

23.

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

Braunstein, Richard

24.

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

25.

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

Robbins, Anthony

26.

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

27.

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

Publilius Syrus

28.

Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

29.

Give light and people will find their own way.

30.

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

31.

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

Ruskin, John

32.

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

33.

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

Virgil

34.

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

Euripides

35.

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

Hobbs, Herschel

36.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

37.

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

38.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

Charles Dudley Warner

39.

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

Bible

40.

If you continually give, you will continually have.

41.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

42.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

43.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

44.

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

Speare, Grace

45.

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

Bible

46.

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

Andrus, Ethel Percy

47.

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.

48.

You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

49.

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

50.

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