Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

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Best Quotes about Giving

You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Lewis, C. S.

Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

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

Gide, Andre

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Bible

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

Ruskin, John

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

Charles Dudley Warner

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

P. D. James

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Bible

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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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If you continually give, you will continually have.

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

16.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Proverb, Chinese

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The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Proverb

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

Reed, Scott

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

Graham, Billy

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

Andrus, Ethel Percy

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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]

Bible

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

Sheen, Fulton John

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

Publilius Syrus

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You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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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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The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.

Tracy, Brian

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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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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

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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 light and people will find their own way.

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

Johnson, Dave

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

Munthe, Axel

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

Speare, Grace

43.

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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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

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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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I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

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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

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

John Wesley

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

Rogers, Will