Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Gide, Andre

Best Quotes about Giving

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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

2.

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

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5.

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

Munthe, Axel

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

Meltzer, Bernard

7.

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

Graham, Billy

8.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

9.

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

Lao-Tzu

10.

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

11.

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

12.

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

Canfield, Jack

13.

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

John Wesley

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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

15.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

16.

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

Reed, Scott

17.

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

Lewis, C. S.

18.

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

19.

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

Young, Vash

20.

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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Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

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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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Give a lot, expect a lot, and if you don't get it, prune.

Peters, Thomas J.

24.

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

Speare, Grace

25.

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

26.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

27.

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

28.

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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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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30.

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

Publilius Syrus

31.

It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving.

Braunstein, Richard

32.

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

Bunyan, John

33.

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

34.

There never was a person who did anything worth doing, who did not receive more than he gave.

Beecher, Henry Ward

35.

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

36.

You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

37.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

38.

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

39.

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.

40.

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

41.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

42.

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

43.

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

Virgil

47.

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

48.

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

Proverb

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