Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Williamson, Marianne

Best Quotes about Giving

1.

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

2.

Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

3.

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

Bunyan, John

4.

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

5.

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

6.

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

7.

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

Collier, Robert

8.

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

9.

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

10.

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

Publilius Syrus

11.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

12.

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

John Wesley

13.

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

Mckeun, Rod

14.

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

Munthe, Axel

15.

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.

16.

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

17.

Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

18.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

19.

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

Baughan, R.J.

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Camus, Albert

24.

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

25.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

26.

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

P. D. James

27.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

28.

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

Andrus, Ethel Percy

29.

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

Mother Teresa

30.

He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

31.

I have always noticed that a man who gives the most for the money, gets the most business.

Young, Vash

32.

Do unto the other feller the way he'd like to do unto you, and do it fast.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

33.

Give light and people will find their own way.

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.

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

Gibbs, Philip

36.

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

37.

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

38.

For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

39.

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

Lao-Tzu

40.

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

41.

A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver.

Eleanor Hamilton

42.

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

43.

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.

44.

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

Rogers, Will

45.

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

46.

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

Bible

47.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

48.

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

49.

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

Ross, Percy

50.

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