Motivational Quotes

Giving

Getters don't get -- givers get.

- Benge, Eugene

Best Quotes about Giving

1.

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

2.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

Charles Dudley Warner

3.

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

Speare, Grace

4.

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

5.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

6.

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

Lao-Tzu

7.

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

Mother Teresa

8.

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

Bible

9.

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

Braunstein, Richard

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

13.

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Benjamin, Walter

14.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

15.

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

Andrus, Ethel Percy

16.

Give light and people will find their own way.

17.

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

18.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

19.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

20.

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

21.

Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

22.

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

Camus, Albert

23.

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

24.

If you continually give, you will continually have.

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Baughan, R.J.

29.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

30.

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.

Robbins, Anthony

31.

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

Young, Vash

32.

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

Mckeun, Rod

33.

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

34.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

35.

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

Jackson, Jesse

36.

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

37.

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

Lao-Tzu

38.

When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

39.

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

40.

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

41.

He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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