Giving Quotes

Remember that progress is not linear either. Sometimes you make great progress for a while and then you slide back a little. That's OK. Don't give up.

Our children are the gift we give the world we'll never see.

Literature incarnates its meanings as concretely as possible. The knowledge that literature gives of a subject is the kind of knowledge that is obtained by (vicariously) living through an experience.

The only thing of value we can give kids is what we are, not what we have.

Everything in life is most fundamentally a gift. And you receive it best and you live it best by holding it with very open hands.

Number theorists are like lotus-eaters -- having once tasted of this food they can never give it up.

Charlie didn't want to give up meat and smoking. Now he's gone.

To enjoy yourself is the easy method to give enjoyment to others.

Epithets, like pepper, Give zest to what you write; And if you strew them sparely, They whet the appetite: But if you lay them on too thick, You spoil the matter quite!

It's interesting, the more successful you become the more people want to give you stuff for nothing.

Passing competitors always gives you a lift. It probably has a physical effect, too, because you get a surge of adrenaline.

Making a film of a work you've played for six weeks gives you intimate knowledge of the character. By the time you go in front of the camera you've worked out the behavior and life of a character.

It's one thing to donate money. It's a whole other thing to give an opportunity for someone to make his own money.

I love celebrities who aren't afraid to take risks. And in the end, it pays off. Some celebs just have the freshest outfits, and they're always giving us something that we never expected.

Even trained for years as they all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine?

I'm the type that'll give any man a chance to come correct before leavin in a ambulance

I think of the words of the prophet . . . : And now, after the many testimonies which have been given of Him, this is the testimony, last of all, that we give of Him: That He lives.

I play for me and I play to win, but it gives me great pleasure to represent Mexico.

Usually I work with a digital camera and compose my works digitally or give them a finish on the computer, in order to make them meet my ideas perfectly.

Not going to give casual worship to a God of extravagant beauty and grace!

No woman should give her happiness into the keeping of a man without fixed principles.

... how much of our inner substance is it good for us to give to public griefs? The whole modern tendency to agonize over the suffering of the entire globe is surely something new.

Money gives you the power to do whatever you want to do. I like the idea of being in complete control of my life.

You don’t have to say that nature is aware of your existence, that God knows you are here. The camera gives you proof that you have lived at least once.

I received a beautiful welcome to the world of music. I want to give something back to the younger generation.

I love her (Lucifer), with all my heart. She said that she would give me greatness, status, placement above the others.

Lawyering is very individualistic. There are lawyers who are going to be that persistent birddog, they're never going to give up on the client, they're going to defend people.

I give grace because I so desperately need it.

Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to his work.

I only give expression to the instincts from my soul.

Always remember honey. A good motto is: Take all you can get and give as little as possible.

As a heart surgeon I am on constant call, and when not researching or giving lectures, I like to be with my family.

Don't give up! Be friends with people who help you work hard.

On the best tactic when playing alongside Kareem Abdul-Jabbar- Just give him the ball.

The biggest thing you can give a kid is self-esteem, so that they're not shy to do different things.

The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private.

A journalist's peculiar function is to read the mind of the country and to give definite and fearless expression to that mind.

If God holds me to be a pure instrument for the spread of nonviolence in place of the awful violence now ruling the earth, He will give me the strength and show me the way.

Give me until the end of the year and I will be able to control the chaos in Gaza, ... Now that the Israeli pullout is completed, we will be able to better deal with the problem.

None of my other investments give me the joy that autographs do because they make me feel that I am holding a piece of history in my hands.

Advice: It's more fun to give than to receive.

I have to give people time to take a picture, and sign autographs. I have to be generous to people. It is in my heart. Without that, I would not be Manny Pacquiao.

I drank a second mouthful in which I find nothing more than in the first, then a third which gives me rather less than the second. It is time to stop; the potion is losing its magic.

To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship.

Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.

There are also in some places springs which have the peculiarity of giving fine singing voices to the natives, as at Tarsus in Magnesia and in other countries of that kind.

The right to life is not a woman's issue. The Lord is the giver of life and only He can make choices about life. It is always a reward to have life ... only the Lord gives and takes life.

The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best which is within us.

The prevalence of mental illness compels me to give it - and the people suffering from it - a voice.

My work is immaterial. It's not painting, it's not sculpture, it's emotions. I'm giving you something to experience yourself.