Giving Quotes - Page 7

• Be a fountain, not a drain.

  Rex Hudler

  Inspirational, Happiness, Attitude

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• Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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• Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Life, Humility

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• Give something back by becoming more

  Tony Robbins

  Positive Thinking, Responsibility, Think Positive

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• To give away money is an easy matter and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man's power nor an easy matter.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Education, Money

  Aristotle (1869). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”, p.56

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• The more we give away, the more is given to us.

  Wayne Dyer

  Grateful, Service To Others, Given

  Wayne W. Dyer (2010). “The Shift: Taking Your Life from Ambition to Meaning”, p.89, Hay House, Inc

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• Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

  Walter Benjamin

  Shock, Receiver

  Walter Benjamin (2016). “One-Way Street”, p.53, Harvard University Press

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• Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Inspirational, Funny, Money

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.24, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

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• Thomas More: ...And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned around on you--where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast--man's laws, not God's--and if you cut them down...d'you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.

  Robert Bolt

  Country, Cutting, Blow

  A Man for All Seasons act 1 (1960)

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• Cheerful givers do not count the cost of what they give. Their hearts are set on pleasing and cheering the person to whom the gift is given.

  Julian of Norwich

  Positive, Cheer, Heart

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• Giving is the highest expression of our power.

  Vivien Greene

  Powerful, Expression, Generosity

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• This is what the past is for! Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Faith, Past, Perfect

  Corrie ten Boom, Elizabeth Sherrill, John Sherrill (2006). “The Hiding Place”, p.12, Chosen Books

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• Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mean, Class, Democracy

  Orthodoxy ch. 4 (1908)

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• The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.

  Mark Hopkins

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Mark Hopkins (1852). “Receiving and Giving: A Baccalaureate Sermon, Delivered at Williamstown , Ms. August 15, 1852. Published by Request of the Class”, p.20

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

  P. D. James

  Children, Parenting, Happy Kid

  P. D. James (2011). “Time to Be in Earnest”, p.11, Faber & Faber

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• I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Women, Believe, Pieces

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1967). “SELECTIONS FROM GIFT FROM THE SEA”

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• The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.

  Andres Segovia

  Music, Beautiful, Ocean

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• When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy and prosperous. Now, if that man, when he gets all he can and saves all he can, does not give all he can, I have more hope for Judas Iscariot than for that man!

  John Wesley

  Christian, Men, Doe

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• By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Ignorance

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.697, GENERAL PRESS

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• Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.

  Thornton Wilder

  Encouraging, Money, Humorous

  "The Matchmaker". Play by Thornton Wilder. Act 4, 1957.

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• Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Epic Poems, Voice

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• You cannot receive what you don't give. Outflow determines inflow.

  Laozi

  Determine, Withholding

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• Living with faith and courage is
  something that life requires of
  each of us.
  Never, absolutely
  never, give up! Never give in no
  matter what!
  Fight it through!
  And I promise you something with
  all of my heart-God will help
  you.

  Kathryn Kuhlman

  Giving Up, Heart, Fighting

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