Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

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Best Quotes about Giving

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

Hobbs, Herschel

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Graham, Billy

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

Camus, Albert

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

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

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

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

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

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

Publilius Syrus

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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

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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

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Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

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We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Canfield, Jack

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

Braunstein, Richard

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

Jackson, Jesse

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The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving

Meltzer, Bernard

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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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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

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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

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

John Wesley

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Edwards, Flora

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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

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

Rogers, Will

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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

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

Lao-Tzu

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

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

Speare, Grace

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Williamson, Marianne

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Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.

Rohn, Jim

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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

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

Virgil

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

Mother Teresa

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

Mckeun, Rod

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One man gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want. [Proverbs 11-24]