Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Graham, Billy

Best Quotes about Giving

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

Rogers, Will

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

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

Virgil

There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.

Euripides

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

Publilius Syrus

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

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

Gide, Andre

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

Young, Vash

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

10.

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

11.

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

Anderson, Sparky

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

Munthe, Axel

14.

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

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

Williamson, Marianne

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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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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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He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

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

20.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Corneille, Pierre

21.

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

Braunstein, Richard

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

P. D. James

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We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving

Meltzer, Bernard

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

John Wesley

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

Bible

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If you continually give, you will continually have.

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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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Give little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

Ruskin, John

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

Bible

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He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Giving is true having.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.

Rohn, Jim

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I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Byron, Lord

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Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

42.

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

Bible

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

Mckeun, Rod

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

Gibbs, Philip

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

Bible

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

Jackson, Jesse