Motivational Quotes

Giving

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

- Corneille, Pierre

Best Quotes about Giving

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

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

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

Ross, Percy

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

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

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

Munthe, Axel

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

Proverb

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

Lao-Tzu

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

Williamson, Marianne

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There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

11.

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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Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

13.

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

Rogers, Will

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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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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

16.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

P. D. James

18.

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

Camus, Albert

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

Jackson, Jesse

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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

21.

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

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You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

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

Canfield, Jack

25.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Graham, Billy

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You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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.

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

30.

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

Anderson, Sparky

31.

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

32.

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

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

Bible

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

Sheen, Fulton John

35.

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

Macewan, Norman

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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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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The nine-tenths prove man's love, but the one-tenth tests man's legal obedience.

Hobbs, Herschel

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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.

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

Bunyan, John

42.

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

Bible

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The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Gide, Andre