Giving Quotes

Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.

One serious drawback about letters is that, in order to get them, one must send some out. When it comes to the mail, I feel it is better to receive than to give.

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food.

The sincere teachers of their youth should be met, not with an intention to dictate to them, but to give additional force to their well-meant endeavours, and raise them to public esteem.

God judges men according to the use they make of the light which He gives them.

So popular is the naval service the only embarrassment is that men volunteer so rapidly we have to work overtime to give them hardy, adequate housing and proper training.

I truly believe that generosity begets generosity. You give before you receive.

Representational painters: place your works in a larger context. Give your work not only breadth but breath. Do not 'copy' what you see outwardly but give it 'spirit.

If we give up the notion that everybody’s life is perfect but ours, we would be a lot happier. Nobody’s life is perfect.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.

I was giving a speech one time, and the woman who introduced me said, 'Well, she used to be J. D. Salinger's girlfriend. I thought, 'God, is that all I've been?' I didn't want to be reduced to that.

The biggest black eye that you can give the devil is to give God your pain and let Him turn it into gain.

Don't give in to excuses that can keep you from really living the best life God has for you.

I want to focus on God's grace and give thanks for all the good things in my life. I don't want to focus on what I don't have.

I only want to do the kind of work that I would like to go and see, that's going to teach me something new, that involves working with people I can learn something from and I can give something to.

Do not look for joy anywhere else. It is living in you, and gives meaning to all Existence.

I want more from life than that and I have more to give.

People en masse have always been wonderful to me. I truly have a great love for an audience...I want to give them two hours of just pow.

I couldn't give a rat's tutu about your emotional distress

I want to give the people a lot more, and be able to perform more than just my one single and all my old songs.

Every day we, as a species, do so much to destroy Creation's ability to give us life. But that Creation continues to do everything in its power to give us life anyway. And that's true love.

We give our intent to love and meekness, by the working of mercy and grace we are made all fair and clean.

The Gillard government must give up its addiction to wasteful spending borrowing and taxing.

The thing to try and keep in mind, no matter what the day, is there is always something good, to give thanks to God in prayer.

Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.

A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul.

My music is rock. I listen to Red Hot Chili Peppers and I listen to one of my songs, and if I don't give you the same emotion, then I go back and re-spit.

I'm giving all that I have in this life. I'm opening up my notebook and I'm saying everything in there out loud.

As badly as I want a medal, I know there is a lot of luck involved in that. I want to put myself in position to be in the top three, give it my all and hope luck comes my way.

I don't like giving speeches - I enjoy sitting on my rump.

To give up too easily leads to regret, yet trying and then failing can lead us to second chances if we do not accept it as a failure, but a chance to learn.

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

The body, what is it, Father, but a sign To love the force that grows us, to give back What in Thy palm is senselessness and mud?

I dropped out of Oxford, and now I only speak Russian with the woman who gives me a bikini wax. See what Hollywood does to you?

We let it in, we give it out, and in the end what's it all about? It must be love.

Lord, I do not ask that Thou shouldst give me wealth; only show me where it is, and I will attend to the rest.

They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not.

To give! To give without hope of recompense, without question, without fear! That was the message of life.

I just want to cuddle with my Lion and give him all the love nobody in the world has given him but me.

Encaustic gives markmaking a dimension... additive/subtractive.

Bottom Line: It's better to give before you receive. And never keep score. If your interactions are ruled by generosity, your rewards will follow suit.

The whole Bible is the story of men and women trying to get back to God, to overcome that sin with sacrifices, good works, sermons, prophesy, witnessing, giving all kinds of things. It never worked

Yeah, one of my approaches with my community, my friends, the companies I represent, has been to take the attitude of what I bring instead of what I can get. What can I give?

Appreciation is the purest,strongest form of love. It is the outward-bound kind of love that asks for nothing and gives everything.

The easiest gift to give my husband is anything to do with airlines and flying.

I can't spread myself too thin to where I have nothing left to give!

Gentle and giving-all the rest is treason.

We Americans are not about to stop borrowing as long as they give us money for nothing.