Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

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Best Quotes about Giving

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

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

Lao-Tzu

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

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

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

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

Lao-Tzu

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Speare, Grace

10.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

11.

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

Edwards, Flora

12.

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

Euripides

13.

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

Gibbs, Philip

14.

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

15.

I have always noticed that a man who gives the most for the money, gets the most business.

Young, Vash

16.

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

Bible

17.

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

18.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

19.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

20.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

21.

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

P. D. James

22.

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

Johnson, Dave

23.

Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

24.

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

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

25.

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

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

27.

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.

Camus, Albert

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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

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He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

30.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

31.

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

32.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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.

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

Bunyan, John

35.

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

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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

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

38.

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

Proverb

39.

He that loveth, flieth, runneth, and rejoiceth. He is free, and cannot be held in. He giveth all for all, and hath all in all, because he resteth in one highest above all things, from whom all that is good flows and proceeds.

Kempis, Thomas

40.

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

Bible

41.

Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

42.

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

Anderson, Sparky

43.

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.

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

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

46.

You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Graham, Billy

48.

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

Munthe, Axel

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It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.