Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Canfield, Jack

Best Quotes about Giving

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

Young, Vash

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

Anderson, Sparky

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

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

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

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

Collier, Robert

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

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

Bible

Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

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

12.

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

Mother Teresa

13.

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

14.

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

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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

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

Lao-Tzu

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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

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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

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For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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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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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

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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

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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.

25.

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

Williamson, Marianne

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Giving half answers won't make the conversation half as long.

Johnson, Dave

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

Publilius Syrus

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

P. D. James

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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

30.

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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He that loveth, flieth, runneth, and rejoiceth. He is free, and cannot be held in. He giveth all for all, and hath all in all, because he resteth in one highest above all things, from whom all that is good flows and proceeds.

Kempis, Thomas

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Give light and people will find their own way.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Macewan, Norman

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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

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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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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

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

Eleanor Hamilton

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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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You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Gibbs, Philip

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Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.