Giving Quotes

... giving tax incentives for more labor ownership of company stock will do more to create jobs and increase productivity than all the "emergency full employment" bills proposed.

I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.

I give dignity second place to expedience.

The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.

I didn't think it was fair to pretend to give of myself when I was so selfishly consumed with my own drives.

The surest way to get a job done is to give it to a busy man. He'll have his secretary do it.

We are all shot through with enough motives to make a massacre, any day of the week that we want to give them their head.

To be used in a part without depth is a frustrating feeling, when you know you have something to give.

Here I am, a product of something really vicious, product of the Atlantic slave trade. And yet, I give nary a thought to some of the awful things happening right now in the world.

Business is no longer a matter of profits alone. Profits must come through public confidence, and public confidence is given to any merchant in proportion to the service which he gives to the public.

Taking money from job creating entrepreneurs and giving it to ever-failing government programs has to be the ultimate in economic illiteracy.

Noble fatherhood gives us a glimpse of the divine attributes of our Father in Heaven.

As critical acclaim and response has built up, every interview I give is a chance to puncture the myth I've created about my work and refine it.

Those who want respect, give respect.

God giving man life and taking it away is not nearly so bad as God taking away childhood and giving him life.

Religion gives a dignity to distress.

I cannot think of a better definition of Christianity than that: give, give, give.

...to many it is not knowledge but the quest for knowledge that gives greater interest to thought-to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not.

Tell the men to fire faster and not to give up the ship; fight her till she sinks.

If you put somebody on a crack pipe and give them a 9 mm Baretta, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out what's going to happen next.

Information is the most valuable commodity in the world today and this business is about giving people access to information that is relevant to their lives.

You should never take responsibility for more children than you can give attention to.

Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.

Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, himself, his hungering neighbor and me.

If a western is a good western, it gives you a sense of that world and some of the qualities those men had - their comradeship, loyalty, and physical courage.

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

People like to let loose at rock concerts and it gives them an excuse to do it in a way that is not destructive to others and not really destructive to the band.

Banks also have to say no to customers. We can't always give clients what they want; it may not be in the client's best interest.

Give it up for Ray Charles and his beautiful legacy. And thank you, Ray Charles, for living.

Mimes were invented to give magicians someone to look down on.

Beware how you give your heart.

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world

Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.

There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.

A guardian angel comes when you are very young, and gives you special dispensation. From what? From the world. Yours might be luck. Mine is money.

The rule on staying alive as a forecaster is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once.

The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems.

Poets and novelists and playwrights make themselves, against terrible resistances, give over what the rest of us keep safely locked within our hearts.

One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are what are really interesting to a performer.

It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World.

If people didn't give a damn, I wouldn't be in the position I'm in. I try not to lose sight of that.

The best thing you can give someone is the freedom to make their own mind up - and then, if it's not working out 5 years later, you can give your opinion.

I went to the store and bought lady fingers, when I got home I noticed one of the fingers was missing so I went back to the store and the manager was nice enough to give me the finger.

Can I hit it in the morning with out giving you have of my dough?

Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

Frying gives cooks numerous ways of concealing what appeared the day before and in a pinch facilitates sudden demands, for it takes little more time to fry a four-pound carp than to boil an egg.

We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.

To give awkwardly is churlishness. The most difficult part is to give, then why not add a smile?

It is motive alone that gives real value to the actions of men, and disinterestedness puts the cap to it.