Motivational Quotes

Giving

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

- Publilius Syrus

Best Quotes about Giving

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

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

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

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

Baughan, R.J.

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Macewan, Norman

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

Rogers, Will

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

John Wesley

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

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

Sheen, Fulton John

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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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

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

Rohn, Jim

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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

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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

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

Canfield, Jack

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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

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

Speare, Grace

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Getters don't get -- givers get.

Benge, Eugene

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The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of oneself to others.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Munthe, Axel

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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

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

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There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca

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Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

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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.

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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]

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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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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

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Ross, Percy

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You give before you get.

Hill, Napoleon

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