Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

Best Quotes about Giving

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

Baughan, R.J.

4.

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

Andrus, Ethel Percy

5.

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

John Wesley

6.

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

Rohn, Jim

7.

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

Bunyan, John

8.

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

Anderson, Sparky

9.

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

Speare, Grace

10.

we make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

11.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

12.

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

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

13.

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

Gibbs, Philip

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Bible

18.

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

Eleanor Hamilton

19.

For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

24.

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

Mother Teresa

25.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

26.

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

27.

Give light and people will find their own way.

28.

Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

29.

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

Lewis, C. S.

30.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

31.

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.

32.

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

Euripides

33.

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

34.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

35.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

36.

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

Virgil

37.

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

Bible

38.

He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

39.

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

Munthe, Axel

40.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

41.

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

42.

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

Proverb

43.

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

Collier, Robert

44.

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

45.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

46.

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

Seneca

47.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

48.

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

49.

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

50.

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold