Motivational Quotes

Giving

You can no more give what you haven't learned than you can come back from a place you've never been.

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Best Quotes about Giving

No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

He who gives while he lives, get to know where it goes.

Ross, Percy

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

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

Virgil

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 only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

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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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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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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

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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

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

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

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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

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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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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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The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Canfield, Jack

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

Anderson, Sparky

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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

30.

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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

P. D. James

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

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

Hobbs, Herschel

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

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

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

Gibbs, Philip

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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

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

Charles Dudley Warner

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

Gide, Andre

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

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Mother Teresa

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Nature does not give to those who will not spend...

Baughan, R.J.

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Give, and it shall be given to you. For whatever measure you deal out to others, it will be dealt to you in return.

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