Giving Quotes

To me, there is no more conscientious umpire in the Major Leagues than Jim Joyce. He gives you a hellacious effort every time.

Nothing in life has any meaning except the meaning you give it.

We can all reduce our life to a description that makes people feel sorry for ourselves or we can expand our life to a dimension where we connect and give to others.

The Secret of living is giving

Do what gives you a buzz.

To live happily with other people one should ask of them only what they can give.

A small craft in the ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship. The skipper's brain is the vessel's brain and he must give up his soul to her, regardless of his own feelings or inclinations.

Whom the gods wish to destroy, they give unlimited resources.

Unintended Consequences is full of substance, it is one of the must-read books of the year, and once I finish it I will be giving it a second read through right away.

I work three months really hard, nonstop, and then I take a month off. Then I do it all over again. I work hard but I give myself four breaks a year.

Raw I'mma give it to ya, with no trivia. Raw like cocaine straight from Bolivia.

Each of us is the only person who can give the other what each of us wants to have: Peace.

Readers, after all, are making the world with you. You give them the materials, but it's the readers who build that world in their own minds.

This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.

Which religion gives the greatest joy to God? That which inspires human beings to practice Ahimsa and compassion to all creatures.

If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?

What gives the Word of God authority is simply the fact that it is the word of God!

I give myself to my parts as to a lover.

An artist gives. Gives visually, gives through courses, or with free advice, through generosity of spirit and through a need to share.

Seeing so much poverty everywhere makes me think that God is not rich. He gives the appearance of it, but I suspect some financial difficulties.

Give to a being the useless, and deprive him of the needful, and you have the gamin.

The best thing anyone can do in life is to give opportunities to a child.

I want to paint men and women with that something of the external which the halo used to symbolize, and which we now seek to give by the actual radiance and vibrancy of our colorings.

Egil Olsen should have gone six games ago. He was totally useless. I'd like to give him a right-hander!

The willingness to fail gives us the freedom to succeed.

I am a big fan of Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller, who have carved a niche for themselves. I think doing different kind of films gives you longevity and the ability to set yourself apart.

I guess walking slow getting married is because it gives you time to maybe change your mind.

I like the idea of giving workers control and putting their money into their personal accounts.

Humility is to joyfully, voluntarily and quietly submit one's whole life to God's will, to finally use the gift of agency to give one's life back to Him.

A writer should give direct certainty; explanations are so much water poured into the wine.

Biography is to give a man some kind of shape after his death.

I have been advised by the best medical authority, at my age, not to attempt to give up alcohol.

Just like my Uncle Charlie used to say, just before he sprung the trap: He said, "You can't cheat and honest man! Never give a sucker an even break or smarten up a chump!

It is as though nature must needs make men narrow in order to give them force.

The moral is that it is necssary to innovate, to predict the needs of the customers, and give him more. He that innovates and is lucky will take the market.

To me Art's subject is the human clay, / And landscape but a background to a torso; / All Cezanne's apples I would give away / For one small Goya or a Daumier.

Life's perhaps the only riddle That we shrink from giving up.

The owner of the New York Yankees, Mr. George Steinbrenner who I had the greatest respect for, I want to thank him for giving me the opportunity to win that special ring in 1996.

I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.

Why should she give her bounty to the dead? What is divinity if it can come Only in silent shadows and in dreams?

I speak the password primeval; I give the sign of democracy.

While it is emotion that gives an impulse to the landscape painter, it is his style that inspires the critic's praise, and his subject that inveigles the untutored beholder.

Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it.

ALL KNOWLEDGE is possible for anyone - and the Cosmos gives it to him who asks, but all information is impossible.

The Life Triumphant is that which places what a man gives to the world in creative expression far ahead of that which he takes from it of the creations of others.

Sometimes you have to learn how to give the right answer to the wrong question.

God will open up places of service for you as He sees you are ready. Meanwhile, study the Bible and give yourself a chance to grow.

The only thing you can do with your life is give it away. The best, happiest moments in your life are always when you're giving something away.

We can only give away to others what we have inside ourselves.

The first step toward discarding a scarcity mentality involves giving thanks for everything that you have.