Giving Quotes

Man and the animals are merely a passage and channel for food, a tomb for other animals, a haven for the dead, giving life by the death of others, a coffer full of corruption.

Make your faces so that they do not all have the same expression, as one sees with most painters, but give them different expression, according to age, complexion, and good or bad character.

The greatest happiness we can give to a mate comes from helping him or her to more understanding of Truth.

I would give worlds, could I believe One-half that is profess'd me; Affection! could I think it Thee, When Flattery has caress'd me.

I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.

My sister is as responsible for anyone for giving me good taste in music.

I can give advice to anyone interested in writing in one word: Read! I think it's much more important to be a reader than to be a writer!

The fact that it's science fiction gives you the license to do anything you want to do.

How to get a job: Speak up and show some life about you. Almost anyone who can give you a decent job these days is half deaf.

Yo, play me with a handshake. Say "What's up, L.L.? Good Luck." That's all. That's all I want. I don't want you to kiss my feet. That ain't necessary. Just give me respect.

Maybe I have to work a bit harder on clay. It's a challenge and I've always liked challenges. Whether I will ever win the French and master playing on clay, who knows? But I'll give it a shot.

If you want truth you should begin by giving it.

Romances paint at full length people's wooing. But only give a bust of marriages.

The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.

It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts - you have no idea of the pain it gives one.

Next to doing things that deserve to be written, nothing gets a man more credit, or gives him more pleasure than to write things that deserve to be read.

Never feel that a piece of criticism or advice is too much trouble to give, or that it exceeds your province.

I've learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for.

You've got to take responsibility for the hell that you've been giving to our people not only in America, but in Haiti and the Caribbean, and now in Africa. [Hillary] Clinton, your hand is bloody

When we live our lives not for vanity, but for the sake of God and the betterment of humanity, that's what gives us immortality.

As a result of that, America desires a moderate Islam; an Islam that America can control; an Islam that America can give direction to and give orders to its leaders.

Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice.

It is through observation and perception of atmosphere that he [the artist] can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to give out.

Within the market society each serves all his fellow citizens and each is served by them. It is a system of mutual exchange of services and commodities, a mutual giving, and receiving.

Every sign by itself seems dead. What gives it life?--In use it is alive. Is life breathed into it there?--Or is the use its life?

My main thing is I'm gonna go out there every night and give it all I got and just try to put on the best show I can. That's just the way I'm programmed and wired.

If we want abusers to change, we will have to require them to give up the luxury of exploitation.

Of those to whom much is given, much is asked.

If you give your mess to the Messiah, He can turn it into a message.

No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not.

You can give your own intuitive qualities a way to surface by following your heart.

Why is it that so many people think that charity consists in giving away merely what they cannot use instead of the article the recipient needs?

No law can give or take away the choice to commit suicide.

Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love.

Sacrifice that causes pain is no sacrifice at all. True sacrifice is joy-giving and uplifting.

Man has always desired power. Ownership of property gives this power. Man hankers also after posthumous fame based on power.

Tolerance gives us spiritual insight, which is as far from fanaticism as the north pole is from the south.

It is my great misfortune that I have to measure your love by the money gifts you give for Daridranarayana.

God tries his votaries through and through but never beyond endurance. He gives them strength enough to go through the ordeal he prescribes for them.

I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.

I just want to go for it. In every aspect of my life and careers, I just want to give it all I have.

I'm definitely not the person to be giving anybody dance lessons.

The religion is a personal thing in my life and fighting in the ring, it's boxing. It's my profession. God always gives me strength.

Raw garlic and a skin of the lemon - not only do they give you a beautiful face and skin but they also protect you from disease.

The most important thing is to be strong. With strength, one can conquer others, and to conquer others gives one virtue.

The real joy in life comes from giving. It comes from service. It comes from doing things for other people. That is what is so powerful about this. Nothing will make you happier than giving.

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

The office of liberality consisteth in giving with judgment.

To-morrow will give some food for thought.

The aim of justice is to give everyone his due.