Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

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Best Quotes about Giving

1.

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

Braunstein, Richard

2.

Do unto the other feller the way he'd like to do unto you, and do it fast.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

Williamson, Marianne

6.

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

Mother Teresa

7.

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

Lao-Tzu

8.

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

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9.

He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

13.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

14.

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

P. D. James

15.

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

16.

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

Young, Vash

17.

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

18.

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

19.

There is only one way to succeed in anything and that is to give everything. I do and I demand that my players do. Any man's finest hour is when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle... victorious.

Lombardi, Vince

20.

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

Macewan, Norman

21.

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

Bunyan, John

22.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

23.

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

Lao-Tzu

24.

Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

25.

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

Ross, Percy

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

29.

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

30.

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

31.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

32.

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

33.

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

Munthe, Axel

34.

Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.

John Wesley

35.

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

Johnson, Dave

36.

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

Publilius Syrus

37.

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

Reed, Scott

38.

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

39.

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Fleet, James Van

40.

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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41.

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

42.

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

Hobbs, Herschel

43.

Trust not the horse, O Trojans. Be it what it may, I fear the Grecians even when they offer gifts.

Virgil

44.

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

45.

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

Lewis, C. S.

46.

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

47.

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

Eleanor Hamilton

48.

Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

49.

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

Baughan, R.J.

50.

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

Gide, Andre