Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

Best Quotes about Giving

1.

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

2.

The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them.

Mckeun, Rod

3.

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

4.

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

Bible

5.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

6.

Why is it no one ever sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get one perfect rose.

Parker, Dorothy

7.

Give light and people will find their own way.

8.

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.

9.

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

Gide, Andre

10.

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Jackson, Jesse

14.

He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

15.

If you continually give, you will continually have.

16.

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

Macewan, Norman

17.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

18.

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

Camus, Albert

19.

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

20.

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

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.

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

Braunstein, Richard

23.

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

Young, Vash

24.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

25.

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

Speare, Grace

26.

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

Lao-Tzu

27.

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

Canfield, Jack

28.

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

29.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

30.

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

Hobbs, Herschel

31.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

32.

In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.

Edwards, Flora

33.

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

34.

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

Rogers, Will

35.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

39.

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

Graham, Billy

40.

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.

41.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

42.

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

43.

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

44.

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

Bible

45.

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

46.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel