The trick is to realize that after giving your best, there's nothing more to give.
~ Sparky Anderson ~
The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.
~ Ethel Percy Andrus ~
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.
~ Barbara De Angelis ~
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.
~ James Baldwin ~
Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.
~ Mary Bateson ~
Nature does not give to those who will not spend...
~ R.J. Baughan ~
Getters don't get -- givers get.
~ Eugene Benge ~
Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
~ Walter Benjamin ~
One man gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want. [Proverbs 11-24]
~ Bible ~
It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving.
~ Richard Braunstein ~
He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.
~ John Bunyan ~
I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.
~ Lord Byron ~
It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.
~ Albert Camus ~
The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of oneself to others.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ~
You have to sow before you can reap. You have to give before you can get.
~ Robert Collier ~
Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.
~ Henry Van Dyke ~
In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.
~ Flora Edwards ~
Always think in terms of what the other person wants.
~ James Van Fleet ~
It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.
~ Philip Gibbs ~
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
~ Kahlil Gibran ~
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.
~ Pamela Glenconner ~
The nine-tenths prove man's love, but the one-tenth tests man's legal obedience.
~ Herschel Hobbs ~
To give is to receive...
~ Gerald G. Jampolsky ~
Giving half answers won't make the conversation half as long.
~ Dave Johnson ~
He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.
~ Lao-Tzu ~
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.
~ Ada Leverson ~
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.
~ Fiona Macleod ~
We must give more in order to get more, It is the generous giving of ourselves that produce the generous harvest.
~ Orison Swett Marden ~
In Giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.
~ George Mcdonald ~
The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them.
~ Rod Mckeun ~
It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.
~ Mother Teresa ~
What you keep to yourself you lose, what you give away, you keep forever.
~ Axel Munthe ~
Plant a kernel of wheat and you reap a pint; plant a pint and you reap a bushel. Always the law works to give you back more than you give.
~ Anthony Norvell ~
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.
~ William Paley ~
Sow much, reap much; sow little, reap little.
~ Chinese Proverb ~
He who gives while he lives, get to know where it goes.
~ Percy Ross ~
To get, give.
~ Bob Roth ~
There is no delight in owning anything unshared.
~ Seneca ~
Giving opens the way for receiving.
~ Florence Scovel Shinn ~
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.
~ Brian Tracy ~
Seek joy in what you give not in what you get
~ Source Unknown ~
The Dead Sea is the dead sea, because it continually receives and never gives.
~ Source Unknown ~
You can no more give what you haven't learned than you can come back from a place you've never been.
~ Source Unknown ~
Trust not the horse, O Trojans. Be it what it may, I fear the Grecians even when they offer gifts.
~ Virgil ~
EARN as much as you can. SAVE as much as you can. INVEST as much as you can. GIVE as much as you can.
~ Rev. John Wellesly ~
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
~ Edith Wharton ~
