Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

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Best Quotes about Giving

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

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

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

Anderson, Sparky

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

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

Collier, Robert

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

Camus, Albert

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

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

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Munthe, Axel

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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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For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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Give, and it shall be given to you. For whatever measure you deal out to others, it will be dealt to you in return.

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Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

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

Young, Vash

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Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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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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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

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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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Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Lao-Tzu

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

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

Ross, Percy

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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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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You only get to keep what you give away.

Kopp, Sheldon

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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

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Sow much, reap much; sow little, reap little.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Gibbs, Philip

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The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Lao-Tzu

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Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Baughan, R.J.

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

Reed, Scott

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Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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

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

Johnson, Dave

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

Speare, Grace

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

Andrus, Ethel Percy

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