Giving Quotes

The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.

What we spend, we lose. What we keep will be left for others. What we give away will be ours forever.

In one equation you can solve all the puzzles of life. It is the equation of giving.

To surrender is not giving up the struggle, but finding peace within the struggle.

What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.

True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.

Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.

Instead of showing strangers kindness and giving them the benefit of the doubt, we increasingly show them only fear, and that is bad for us and them.

I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.

And I always like to stress, it's not a quota, not a set-aside, it's not about race, it's about giving opportunities to demonstrate their abilities to do work with the Federal Government.

The position of the hysterical subject is that he or she always guesses what is behind the curtain, that is why such a subject usually ends up [...] giving up on love.

People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.

I think about giving up. I almost do.

We all learned valuable lessons from that crop. The Lord showed us the importance of walking by faith, and not by sight, of trusting him unconditionally and never giving up.

When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.

What a good thing there is no marriage or giving in marriage in the after-life; it will certainly help to smooth things out.

I do not like giving advice: it is incurring an unnecessary responsibility.

I don't think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.

But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in.

We live in a time when people give up too easy.

My biggest faux pas is not giving time for myself.

What are you waiting for in order to give up?

Never the grave gives back what it has won!

Giving and receiving love is vital to human existence. It is the glue that binds couples, families, communities, cultures, and nations.

Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I'm not giving up my day job or trying to get anyone else's job. I just can't think of anything cooler than being one of the boys of summer!

Give up control to gain control.

Just follow that one road the whole time!... I hope they don't get lost, I'm so bad at giving directions.

I'm not giving up on my work. I'm still trying to challenge people's aesthetics and myself.

You make something. You give up expressing and start inventing.

Before giving advice we must have secured its acceptance, or, rather, have made it desired.

Restraint does not mean weakness. It does not mean giving in.

I would never offer advice without the person asking for it. I, in general, don't believe in giving advice, actually, as a human being I don't.

God never imposes a duty without giving time to do it.

Moral judgment is not life-giving; love that transcends the boundaries of judgment as Jesus' love did, is.

I don't want to give up acting - it's what I am.

Mother does not exist, like water that has given life to a flower and then disappeared. Mothers live somewhere after giving birth to us.

All my adult life I've been in the practice of giving advice to people who are happier than I am.

My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age.

Sometimes there's no point in giving up.

No other health disparity is so stark; virtually every woman who dies giving birth lives in a poor country.

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.

Whoever said anyone has the right to give up.

It often happens that those who spend their time giving light to others, remain in darkness themselves.

Artists, by definition innocent, don't steal. But they do borrow without giving back.

I loved being pregnant. I felt unapologetically curvy, sexy, and intensely feminine. After giving birth I joined the ranks of millions of new mothers when I moaned, 'Why do I still look pregnant?'

Lean on principles, one day they'll end up giving way.

I'm not accustomed to giving advice to those who haven't asked for it.

As it is more blessed to receive, so it must be more blessed to receive than to give back.

The pernicious influence of the prize and medal giving in art is so great that it should be stopped. History proves that juries in art have been generally wrong.