Giving Quotes

I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1,000 meters in front of you and you hope you can cover that ground and not have to back up and give it up again.

How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity.

It's not easy being grateful all the time. But it's when you feel least thankful that you are most in need of what gratitude can give you

When people say they are looking for happiness, I ask, What are you giving to the world?

We can give our smiles, our encouragement, our sympathy to someone who needs them every day of the year.

I love to live well, I love to eat well, I love to buy beautiful things, and to give a fantastic time to my friends.

Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude of places nobody cares to visit, as they call geography.

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.

God never gives strength for tomorrow, or for the next hour, but only for the strain of the minute.

Spiritual lust causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God Himself who gives the answer.

If you give up your quiet life, the bow of Cupid will lose its power.

When you're me, when you're R. Kelly, everybody wants a piece of you, and if you don't give 'em a piece they'll find a way to get a piece of you one way or the other.

If religion, instead of being the manifestation of a spiritual ideal, gives prominence to scriptures and external rites, then does it disturb the peace more than anything else.

I want you. I want only you. I want all of you. But I'll take whatever you're ready to give.

If we have strong desire then God miraculously removes obstacles and gives us the power to overcome them.

You give away nice like it doesn't cost you anything.

We make our way through Everything like thread passing through fabric, giving shape to images that we ourselves do not know.

Be-and yet know the great void where all things begin, the infinite source of your own most intense vibration, so that, this once, you may give it your perfect assent.

Religion is consciousness-raising. It raises you higher than the problem, it gives you a bird's-eye view.

The way to transform your immense inner value into outer riches is by giving it freely and authentically to others.

You give out the words and then sing them. You give out the words, you know, and the people can hear what you're giving out, and they sing that song or that line and they do the same thing again.

As a Christian should do no injuries to others, so he should forgive the injuries that others do to him. It is to be like God, who is a good-giving God, and a sin-forgiving God.

Give cheerfully. If we're not cheerful, the problem is our heart, and the solution is redirecting our heart, not withholding our giving.

Kelly, Kelly, Kelly. I love your voice man, you give me chills... Brilliant.

You will need to find your passion. Don't give up on finding it because then all you're doing is waiting for the Reaper.

It's lack that gives us inspiration. It's not fullness.

Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it.

Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios.

And no book gives a deeper insight into the inner life of the Negro, his struggles and his aspirations, than, The Souls of Black Folk.

Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose

Scriptures are like packets of light that illuminate our minds and give place to guidance and inspiration from on high.

Can you hang in there with your investigators when things get going tough? Don't give up on investigators because they have a little weakness. Work with them until the Holy Ghost tells you not to.

A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.

May God give you - and me- the courage, the wisdom, the strength always to hold the kingdom of God as the number one priority of our lives. To do so is to live in simplicity.

Great companies make meaning. A company has a name, but its people give it meaning.

Autopsies give us the facts but not the truth.

God never asks us to give what we do not have . . . But he cannot use what we will not give.

Entertain me, heroes of Olympus. Give me a reason to do more." Bacchus to Percy and Jason

I don't need anything to live, to be honest. Give me a mattress or a futon on the floor and I'll be the happiest camper.

I feel no need and have no desire to give any attention to other people's opinion of me.

I saw them kissing in the shade and knew the sum of all my lore: God gave them Youth, God gave them Love, and even God can give no more.

Faith gives you a certain structure and meaning to your life.

If you absolutely love it more than anything in the world, don't give up. You gotta keep working hard because it's a lot tougher than it looks.

Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.

I believe that God is love. I believe that Jesus came to show us this love, to give us this love, to teach us about this love, so that we could live in this love and extend it to others.

Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven't got a clue what the hell I'm doing.

I got serious about painting at 12, when most people give up.