Giving Quotes

You've gotten drunk on so many kinds of wine. Taste this. It won't make you wild. It's fire. Give up, if you don't understand by this time that your living is firewood.

A wrongdoing doesn't give us the right to do wrong.

I have to shut down from other artists, because otherwise I end up giving them my stories.

Don't let your life give evidence against your tongue. Sing with your voices... sing also with your conduct.

If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational.

You go back and tell Brigham Young that I'll give up the Lord's money when he sends me a receipt signed by the Lord, and no sooner.

Oh Earth, you gave me all I have, I love you, I love you, - oh what have IThat I can give you in return - Except my body after I die?

When a relationship dies do we ever really give up the ghost or are we forever haunted by the spirits of relationships past?

Your children are not your children. They are lives longing for itself. They come here with their own destiny. Give them your love. They will find their own way.

I think we have to be not so afraid of scarcity. We have to be willing to give away all things.

God gives us opportunity to serve him by serving humanity

The best way to control cow and sheep is to give them a big grazing field.

To give your sheep or cow a large, spacious meadow is the way to control him.

Despair gives the shocking ease to the mind that a mortification gives to the body.

The trouble with giving yourself a pep talk is, that deep down you know it's all bullshit.

He who has never denied himself for the sake of giving has but glanced at the joys of charity.

The knowledge that unites love and wisdom, that uplifts the spirit is spirituality. The knowledge which gives you a broad vision and a big heart is spirituality.

Do not marvel at the novelty of the thing, if a Virgin gives birth to God.

I can't cuss and tell jokes the rest of my life. I gotta say something meaningful. I gotta give something back to a Creator who has given so much to me.

What you see happening right now with some of the consolidation is all about more spectrum and capital formation that give you the scale, scope and resources to invest in that 3G world.

If you give people literacy, bad ideas can be attacked and experiments tried, and lessons will accumulate.

Good jokes are gems. A good idea is hard to come by. I couldn't give them to someone else, even for money. It just wouldn't seem right.

Hope is not defined by the absence of hardship. Rather, hope is found in God’s grace in the midst of hardship. Hope is found in his promise to give us a future.

Everybody is on drugs . . . just give 'em what they want.

Being relatively unmoved by rewards gives you the incalculable power to go your own way.

When we give from a place of love, rather than from a place of expectation, more usually comes back to us than we could ever have imagined.

True meditation gives us, as it were, wings for flight to a higher realm and thus detaches us from terrestrial fetters.

I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.

I give the niggaz what they came to see, a reflection of one self where they aim to be.

Life experience makes the best music. That's the thing that nobody else can offer. Nobody else can offer my life. I have a life that is fit for movies, music, and so forth. Nobody else can give that.

More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.

Teach the heart not to give way to proud emotions and arrogant thinking; bring the mind to heart-soothing solutions that make it possible to control oneself gently and wisely.

I always try to be a trend setter. That's what I always tell young people when I'm giving them advice. To go with their heart and don't follow the trends.

A holy woman may be beautiful by the gift of nature, but she must not give occasion to lust. If beauty be hers, so far from setting it off she ought rather to obscure it.

I would prefer a thousand times to receive reproofs than to give them to others.

The whole point of creating music for me is to give voice to things that aren't normally given voice to.

When comfort is withdrawn, do not be cast down, but humbly and patiently await the visitation of God. He is able and powerful to give you more grace and more spiritual comfort than you first had.

It wasn't about mechanics; it was about a feeling, wanting to give someone something, which in turn was really gratifying. That really resonated for me.

Our opportunities to give of ourselves are indeed limitless, but they are also perishable.

For men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.

The recognition that things that are not sustainable will eventually come to an end does not give us much of a guide to whether the transition will be calm or exciting.

Prayer gives us relief from the melancholy burden of self-absorption .

I believe that working independently will give artists the ability to communicate the full extent of their art and not just a piece of it that might sell.

We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.

Always stay focused. Always give and try your best.

It was the Lord's love and my recognition of His presence in my life that made me realize how important it was to give Him the glory and be there for Him.

A best friend is a sister that destiny forgot to give you.

Every consession gives rise to further concessions, we cannot back down, because behind us there is only an abyss, we must keep our promises and demand that they be kept.

The only lost cause is one we give up on before we enter the struggle.

In traditional agriculture, the soil is the mother. She's the mother who gives, to whom you must give back.