Giving Quotes

Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.

Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge.

The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendor cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate.

We have now learned that rashness and imprudence will not be deterred from taking credit; let us try whether fraud and avarice may be more easily restrained from giving it.

No, Sir, you will have much more influence by giving or lending money where it is wanted, than by hospitality.

There cannot be any great happiness in the married life except each in turn give up his or her own humors and lesser inclinations.

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.

A woman's best qualities do not reside in her intellect, but in her affections. She gives refreshment by her sympathies, rather than by her knowledge.

I'm just having fun. And giving a sort of second shot at childhood and life - and I need to be present to do it.

I can't stand it when people say, "If you're writing a novel, you should read this and that." Because it's like giving someone another person's prescription. How do you know that's what they need?

Moon, worn thin to the width of a quill,/ In the dawn clouds flying,/ How good to go, light into light, and still/ Giving light, dying.

Only dreams give birth to change.

Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change.

Don't give me no rotten tomato, 'cause all I ever wanted was your sweet potato.

I'm really lucky that my record companies have been patient with me and leave me alone and give me the time to make it right in my mind.

No one wants to take from me what I give abundantly.

Acting gives you cosmic permission to take a trip in movies that lasts 24 hours a day, seven days a week, until the film is finished.

I often give my wife Carol scripts I'm offered and want her opinion - because she's a really smart lady, and she's got nothing to do with this business, so I get the audience's point of view.

Collective bargaining isn't a right, it is an expensive entitlement. Once and for all, we are giving the taxpayers a voice in this debate. We put the power back in the hands of the people.

I think anybody that gives their opinion in a confident way everyday is going to be criticized.

I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working.

You give up your future, lose your dreams, are stained with despair . . . Yet at the same time you shake off your past, fight reality, and never lose your nobility.

I like to think that I'm giving a voice to the silenced.

An audience sabotages my freedom, devastates my innocence, corrupts my integrity, inhibits my great joy - and of course gives me further to fall.

The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

There is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

I think nobody wants to hear a sermon. Well, some people do, but maybe not through music or not with me. No one wants to hear me give a speech that way.

The rider and the team need to understand one another and work in the same direction. Then the rider's happy, and only then will the rider be able to give 100%.

I just want to give people the best album that I possibly can.

I'm a musician; I have to perform. I can't give up. I have to be even more courageous. We know that we have a lot of enemies. Not only in Iran. But that doesn't matter.

Someone pays me a hundred bucks every Tuesday to DJ. I don't think I'll ever give that up.

I still have this teddy bear I've had since I was three...and all my boxes, all kinds of boxes. I just won't give them up. It's like if I give them up, I've given in to being a movie star.

When I went pro at 13, I had plenty of sponsors that give me endorsement deals and stuff like that.

For someone who wears makeup so much all the time, it's really important to take it off and give your skin some time to breath.

It's important to give back to people.

Nothing gives quite the satisfaction that doing things brings.

We asked the workers to give up 25 percent of their salaries. Imagine! We asked the industrialists to freeze all costs, no matter what the inflation is.

I hope the example of Saddam Hussein will give a lesson to leaders of other countries where human rights are not respected.

I have also written a book about the Giving of the Torah, and a book on the Days of Awe, and a book on the books of Israel that have been written since the day the Torah was given to Israel.

You can't teach an old dog new dog new tricks. Now,you can give an old dog new toys. And we've got one here!

The IRA sending a message of sympathy to America is like Jack the Ripper giving us a lesson in the sanctity of human life.

The false separation between living and giving must end.

There is a difference between offering a service and being willing to serve. They may both include giving but only one is generous.

Great leaders give everyone something to believe in, not something to do.

The next time someone starts listing all the reasons an idea won't work or can't happen, ask them to give 3 reasons it can.

If you're going to undertake any project, like a book, you have to show up to give.

There are so many problems. Women can go to work on these as well without giving up their feminism.

Beloved Pan and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and the inward man be one.

Small businesses drive this economy and it is unacceptable that the President's budget proposal does not give them the tools they need to be successful.