Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Giving

1.

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]

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2.

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

3.

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

4.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

5.

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

Reed, Scott

6.

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

Collier, Robert

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

Jackson, Jesse

10.

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

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11.

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

Anderson, Sparky

12.

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

Williamson, Marianne

13.

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

14.

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

15.

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

Bunyan, John

16.

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

17.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

18.

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

19.

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.

20.

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

Hobbs, Herschel

21.

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

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22.

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

Lewis, C. S.

23.

Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

24.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

25.

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

Edwards, Flora

26.

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

Rogers, Will

27.

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

Mother Teresa

28.

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

29.

You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

30.

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

31.

For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

32.

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

Gide, Andre

33.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

38.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

39.

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

40.

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

Mckeun, Rod

41.

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

42.

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

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43.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

44.

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

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

45.

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