Giving Quotes

Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.

Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.

Alexander the Great valued learning so highly, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge than to his father Philip for life.

Create a dream and give it everything you have, you could be surprised just how much you are capable of achieving.

A man must have limits and cannot give in to the wild desires to be everything and everyone and everything to everyone.

Always try to maintain complete tolerance and always make an effort to give people more then they expect.

Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.

I understand what it's like to go to hospitals and there's no medicine, and the best thing you have to give the patients is compassion.

Cement doesn't give as much as snow.

You have to learn to be patient and not give up. Look to your parents; they need to be there for you. But having spiritual faith will get you through anything.

Most women are starving to receive something from a man that they need to give to themselves.

My advice to everybody - never give up and have great resiliency. Don't take the rejection personally, but listen if it’s intelligent and make changes if they’re needed and then move forward.

I like to avoid concessions to faint-heartedness. One can never tell where that road may lead one; one gives way first in words, and then little by little in substance too.

The whole evolution of present-day society tends to develop the various forms of bureaucratic oppression and to give them a sort of autonomy in regard to capitalism as such.

Truth gives no advantage. It gives no higher status, no power over others; all you get is truth and freedom from the false.

Knowledge gives power. In practice it is very simple. To control yourself, know yourself.

Nothing gives us a greater idea of our soul, than that God has given us, at the moment of our birth, an angel to take care of it.

I used and abused drugs and alcohol. When I stopped doing that it became a lot clearer that life goes from inside to giving as opposed to taking and destroying.

Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.

So, how come Jacob Black gets to give you a gift and I don't? Because I have nothing to give back to you. Bella, you give me everything just by breathing.

If I were asked to give the best idea of which I am capable, it would be that we should get out of the junk business and then start laying up treasures in heaven.

If you're trying to invent something new, you're going to reach a lot of discouraging points, and most people give up.

I actually enjoy the pain. That's what gives me the fire inside to get up and keep going.

Never give up on something you believe in.

Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'.

It gives me satisfaction to help people.

Christians are always wanting God to give them something. They appear as beggars before the throne of the Almighty.

If you are not willing to receive, then you are "ripping off" those who want to give to you.

The mark of true wealth is determined by how much one can give away.

Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didnt: It was basically a semantics game.

You can only give your heart away once, after that, everything else will chase your first love

That's why writers write—to say things loudly with ink. To give feet to thoughts; to make quiet, still feelings loudly heard.

giving up doesn't always mean your weak sometimes your just strong enough to let go

Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you

God aids the valiant...both to you and to me He will give the help needed.

You can either give in to what youre feeling, just say ‘okay, enough is enough’ and be done with it, or you can fight it.

Wizard's Fourth Rule There is magic in sincere forgiveness; in the forgiveness you give, but more so in the forgiveness you receive.

I get it,' said the prisoner. 'Good Cop, Bad Cop, eh?' If you like.' said Vimes. 'But we're a bit short staffed here, so if I give you a cigarette would you mind kicking yourself in the teeth?

Give anyone a lever long enough and they can change the world. It's unreliable levers that are the problem.

I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder.

Devotion is a certain act of the will by which man gives himself promptly to divine service.

Even in the fiercest uproar of our stormy passions, conscience, though in her softest whispers, gives to the supremacy of rectitude the voice of an undying testimony.

We are here lounging our time away, doing nothing, and having nothing to do. It gives me great regret to be passing my time so uselessly when it could have been so importantly employed at home.

Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting.

What in your life allows you to give up to other people, and allows you to forgive others and accept forgiveness.

So I told my mum that I'd opened a theatre. She said, "Are you having me on?" I said, "Well I'll give you an audition, but I'm not promising you anything."

The essence of forgiveness is absorbing pain instead of giving it.

I'm hoping that people should hopefully give me another chance to dream big and to deliver on those dreams.

Trying to find a human side to the character is a way to give them a chance to have people like them.

To live fully, one must be free, but to be free one must give up security. Therefore, to live one must be ready to die. How's that for a paradox?