Motivational Quotes

Giving

One man gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want. [Proverbs 11-24]

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Best Quotes about Giving

1.

A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses.

Proverb

2.

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

Lao-Tzu

3.

Go-Givers will become the best go-getters.

4.

Sow much, reap much; sow little, reap little.

Proverb, Chinese

5.

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

Gide, Andre

6.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Dyke, Henry Van

7.

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

Ross, Percy

8.

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

Virgil

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

12.

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

Baughan, R.J.

13.

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Bateson, Mary

14.

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

Macewan, Norman

15.

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

Hobbs, Herschel

16.

Give light and people will find their own way.

17.

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.

18.

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

19.

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

Publilius Syrus

20.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

21.

You have to sow before you can reap. You have to give before you can get.

Collier, Robert

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

Williamson, Marianne

24.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

25.

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

Camus, Albert

26.

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

Munthe, Axel

27.

Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

28.

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

29.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

30.

For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi, St.

31.

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.

32.

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

Mckeun, Rod

33.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

34.

When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

39.

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

Young, Vash

40.

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

41.

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

42.

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Nightingale, Earl

43.

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

John Wesley

44.

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

P. D. James

45.

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