Giving Quotes

Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.

Get as much out of life as you possibly can with all the passion that goes with it. Then give it back with all the love and respect it deserves.

To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.

It is our responsibility to learn how to speak to an audience that is less informed about music, to give it a reason to want to come and see us instead of going to the movies.

If you want to stand out from the crowd, give people a reason not to forget you

The more one gives one's self in creative union with another, the more one becomes one's self.

Chance is another name that we give to our mistakes. And all of the best things in my films are mistakes.

You really can give a 110% effort towards something that you are truly passionate about.

At first, I am giving energy to the creation, but later the creation seems to be giving energy to me.

The real purpose of painting is to give pleasure.

Few people give themselves time to be friends.

Giving men marriage tips is a little like offering Vikings a free booklet titled How Not to Pillage.

It's amazing how far you will get by just staying with something long enough. Most people give up too early.

Unless we take care of the society we live in, there won't be any society left to support our businesses. We have to give as much as we extract.

Federal government shutdowns are unsettling, because you realize how little you depend on it compared to the money you give in taxes.

Give a drag queen a fish and you feed her for a day; show her how to be fishy and you feed her for a lifetime.

I'm pretty good at surprising friends and family with gifts. I tend to go towards the more sentimental side of giving.

Any woman who does not give birth to as many children as she is capable is guilty of murder.

There's so many great, fantastic compliments I need to give that girl. Three words isn't enough.

Estragon: We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist? Vladimir: Yes, yes, we're magicians.

Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.

Running has never failed to give me great end results, and that's why I keep coming back for more!

You take the thing that is the worst thing that could have happened to you, the worst challenge in your life, and you turn it into fuel. You don't give up. And that's what Gotham is about.

Whatever it is, I give it my all. You have to do everything you want in this one life that you have.

Don't give to get. Give to inspire others to give.

If we inspire people, they will give us more than we asked for. If we manipulate them, they will give us exactly what we paid for

A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution of body nor knowledge of mind.

Silence gives the proper grace to women

To be rich is to give a smile with no expectation of return.

There is no second, or higher self to search for. You are the highest self, only give up the false ideas you have about your self.

The relinquishing of the lesser is the gaining of the greater. Give up all and you gain all.

O unfathomable depth! O Deity eternal! O deep ocean! What more could You give me than to give me Yourself?

You will do very well to refuse offices; for a man seldom fails to give offense in them. It ought to weary you simply to hear them mentioned.

Superheroes? In New York? Give me a break!

You cannot compare your athletic achievement to the importance of children and giving them a safe environment in which to grow up and enjoy life.

Being a father kind of gives you something more to play for.

I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you have costume, story, acting, orchestra.

Satan has no power over us except as we give it to him. God never forces us to do right, and Satan has no power to force us to do wrong.

There's something to be said for giving and helping to change people's lives.

I can't ever give up, because I can't ever leave my daughters.

I give this book 5 Stars and highly recommend it to all fiction, nonfiction, and poetry writers, aspiring writers, bloggers or journalists.

Patience means knowing it will happen . . . and giving it time to happen.

Writing is finally a series of permissions you give yourself to be expressive in certain ways. To leap. To fly. To fail.

We want today that bright sun of intellectuality joined with the heart of Buddha, the wonderful infinite heart of love and mercy. This union will give us the highest philosophy.

Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.

It is praiseworthy when you give not only to your power but beyond your power.

Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure.

Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.

What is meant by: "We mustn't give in to the terrorists"? We gave in to them the moment the first bombs fell on Afghanistan.

Demons were like genies or philosophy professors - if you didn't word things exactly right, they delighted in giving you absolutely accurate and completely misleading answers.