Giving Quotes

Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.

No matter how dark things become, someone is always with you - and that someone is God. He helps by giving you peace and a positive mental attitude.

Go at life with abandon; give it all you've got. And life will give all it has to you.

It gives me goose bumps and little butterflies in the stomach when I start thinking about the 'golden slam.'

A little bit added to what you've already got gives you a little bit more.

Taxi drivers all over the world, by the way, are under Newspaper Guild contract to give easy quotes to foreign correspondents.

The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself.

I wanted to show them I will never give up. We have to keep together. I still believe in myself. I will never change. The players need to release the rubbish from their brains.

Leadership doesn't mean giving marching orders that others must follow blindly. Rather, it means causing others to want to follow. Successful leadership is personal.

It takes one person to give you a big chance.

Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure

The transposition that a painter makes with an original vision gives to the representation of nature a new interest.

Our sin is what separates us from God, but it's our self righteousness that keeps us from running to Him for the grace He willingly gives to all who come.

... the student skit at Christmas contained a plaintive line: "Give us Master's exams that our faculty can pass, or give us a faculty that can pass our Master's exams."

I never wanted to do away with my intensity because I felt it was a gift that helped put fuel in my engine, giving me exceptional drive and energy.

The National Academy of Sciences would be unable to give a unanimous decision if asked whether the sun would rise tomorrow.

History never seems to teach us any lessons. But that is no reason to give up.

Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you.

It is not the gift, but the thought that counts.

Look, I think the notion that theres a dogma or doctrine of foreign policy that gives you a textbook recipe for how to react to all situations is really nonsense.

Having things taken away from you is not the same as giving them away.

So we contemplate each other, and we want each other, and I give it life and warmth, and it gives me my reason for living.

Don't expect your genius to be discovered; do what you must do because it gives you joy. Don't expect your love to be accepted. Love because it justifies your life.

We suffer because we feel we are giving more than we receive. We suffer because our love is going unrecognized. We suffer because we are unable to impose our own rules.

The teacher will never give up on the student no matter how mixed up he or she might be

Maybe everyone is a little too reassuring that things are going to be OK to college graduates. It gives them a false sort of security.

One of the great movements in my lifetime among educated people is the need to commit themselves to action. Most people are not satisfied with giving money; we also feel we need to work.

We need spring. We need it desperately, and, usually, we need it before God is willing to give it to us.

When you give yourself away you find that a new and more real self has somehow been given to you.

Envy, though not the greatest sin, is the only one that gives the sinner no pleasure at all, not even fake and temporary satisfaction.

The Bible gives no hint that a Christian "belief system" might be isolated from the life of the Church, subjected to scientific analysis, and have its truth compared with competing "belief systems".

Every time we give our word, it counts. For the most part, people give their word entirely too often. Our word is a precious commodity and should be treated as such.

This is our true wealth: the riches we take with us, the joy we carry inside, the support we learn to give ourselves, and the self-loving that flows as a natural by-product of that support.

Learn to ask for what you want. The worst people can do is not give you what you ask for which is precisely where you were before you asked.

Knowledge is the only kind of wealth that multiplies when you give it away.

Have friends, not for the sake of receiving, but of giving.

I must say that "Give Peace a Chance" has always seemed to me to be sensible advice.

An artist must eat sparingly and give up a normal way of life.

I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.

But even when I do give interviews, I always come across as such a completely different person. It seems like there's no controlling it anyway.

For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them

[M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion.

Conversion is not implanting eyes, for they exist already; but giving them a right direction, which they have not

The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.

Statesmen are not only liable to give an account of what they say or do in public, but there is a busy inquiry made into their very meals, beds, marriages, and every other sportive or serious action.

It is no flattery to give a friend a due character; for commendation is as much the duty of a friend as reprehension.

Seeing with the eyes of Christ, I can give to others much more than their outward necessities; I can give them the look of love which they crave.

Let us never yield to pessimism, to that bitterness that the devil offers us every day.

Life is a precious gift, but we realize this only when we give it to others.

Every time we give in to selfishness and say “No” to God, we spoil his loving plan for us.