Giving Quotes

Belief gives you the power to achieve the extraordinary

You got to learn to take what people are willing to give.

Do you have any idea how stubborn you can look ? Our children better never give me that look, althought I won't mind if they give it to you. You'd deserve it.

I'm not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they'll have, immediately the floor will rise.

Keep what you've got till you get what you need, y'all. You gotta give a lot just to get what you need sometimes, y'all.

Gears of War: Exile was an unannounced game that I can't give any details about that has since been cancelled.

Give me B movies or give me death!

You know, if I don't make it when I go out there in that weather balloon into that thunder storm. I want, you to take your ear and give it to my wife.

Any time someone puts a lock on something you own against your wishes, and doesn't give you the key, they're not doing it for your benefit.

What are we fighting for? Don't ask me I don't give a damn.

A fellow with the smallest mind is the one who is usually most willing to give someone a piece of it.

When you become famous, they don't give you a handbook.

It is the function of a liberal university not to give right answers, but to ask right questions.

For how can a man stand, unless he have something sure under his feet. Can a man tread the unstable water all his life, and call that standing? Better give in and drown at once.

Bravely overcoming one small fear gives you the courage to take on the next.

When we give thanks in all things, we see hardships and adversities in the context of the purpose of life.

You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.

I am giving an account of what was, not of what ought or ought not to be.

Good things that cannot be calculated or quantified are set in motion in your life and in your finances when you give.

You are either withholding your love in fear or giving your deepest gifts.

To become more conscious is the greatest gift anyone can give to the world; moreover, in a ripple effect, the gift comes back to its source.

So reports of my madness, as they say, were greatly exaggerated. Not that I give a bugger either way.

Set exorbitant standards, and give your people hell when they don't live up to them. There is nothing so demoralizing as a boss who tolerates second rate work.

[...]there is no injustice in God. The injustice lies in Christians who possess the gospel and refuse to give their lives to making it known among those who haven't heard.

Giving thanks is a key that opens a door to greater connectedness and greater participation in the life of the world. It is one of the most powerful spiritual practices available to us.

The United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it's kicked in the flanks

Take advantage of each small success. In this way you close the gap between what you want from life and what it is giving you.

Signals from spirit all serve the same purpose; to give you back your life as a creator

I never give anyone just one congratulation. Congratulations are always plural. They are similar to grapes.

The easiest thing to do in the world is to neglect the important and give in to the urgent.

Don't look back. Just go ahead. Give ideas away. Under every idea there's a new idea waiting to be born.

We are all here to be a service to those who can't be a service to themselves. We can give people hope and more reasons for being human.

When you give away a little piece of your heart, you're giving away the only thing you can give away, which, after you do, you got more left than you had before you gave some of it away.

You have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel.

If we had had the privilege of giving hospitality to a Ho Chi Minh, with what respect and interest we would have served him, as a man of vision, as a patriot, a rebel against foreign invaders.

Good architecture is necessary to give programs enough structure to be able to grow large without collapsing into a puddle of confusion.

In any job, you have to give up certain things, and I believe that having a good quality of life means enjoying certain things only in moderation.

I'm very drawn to Eastern Europe, so I like a Hungarian writer who wrote in French called Emil Cioran; he was always good for giving me such a stir.

Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion.

The best aid to give is intellectual aid, a gift of useful knowledge. A gift of knowledge is infinitely preferable to a gift of material things.

Life will give you what you ask of here if only you ask long enough and plainly enough.

If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.

I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.

In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

Well folks, what do you think? Here's our choices.. Should I give Paul Bearer back to Kane? Should I shove Paul Bearer down these steps?

People underestimate me, maybe because of my look, maybe because of my speech, and I love that. I love to give the impression that I'm an easy victim. I ain't nobody's fool, believe that.

My hands are full when you give me your hand.

Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.

Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.