Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Bible

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Rogers, Will

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

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

John Wesley

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

10.

The real secret of happiness is not what you have or what you receive; it's what you share

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

13.

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

Jackson, Jesse

14.

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

Bunyan, John

15.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

20.

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

Charles Dudley Warner

21.

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

22.

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

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

Eleanor Hamilton

24.

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

25.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

32.

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

33.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

34.

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

Graham, Billy

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

38.

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

Williamson, Marianne

39.

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

Reed, Scott

40.

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

41.

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

42.

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

43.

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

Edwards, Flora

44.

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

45.

For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

46.

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

47.

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

Mother Teresa

48.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

49.

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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It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.

Robbins, Anthony