Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

Best Quotes about Giving

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

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

Anderson, Sparky

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

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

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Rogers, Will

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Proverb

10.

If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach.

Margaret Cho

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Gibbs, Philip

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

16.

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

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

17.

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

18.

Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

19.

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

20.

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

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

P. D. James

22.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

25.

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

26.

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

Proverb, Chinese

27.

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

Lao-Tzu

28.

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

Camus, Albert

29.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

30.

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

Bible

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

Marden, Orison Swett

32.

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

33.

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

Bible

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

Euripides

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

Lewis, C. S.

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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 that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Canfield, Jack

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

Bible

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

Bunyan, John

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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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The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

Ford, Henry

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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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Give light and people will find their own way.