Giving Quotes

I don't have any personal challenges about throwing away the past. If you're not changing, you're giving others a chance to catch up.

What is grit? Grit is refusing to give up. It's persistence. It's making your own luck.

Ill smoke anything anybody gives me, Im not particular.

I want to give moral relativism the good spanking it deserves.

He who feels that the vice of avarice has got hold of him, should not wish to observe fasts of supererogation, but to give alms.

Many delight more in giving of presents than in paying their debts.

The world says you gain your life by getting more and more and more and more, but Jesus says, 'No, that leads to death. You get it back by giving it away and when you give it away you get it back.'

Give plenty of what is given to you, And listen to pity's call. Don't think the little you give is great, And the much you get is small.

If [a woman] insisted on becoming an architect, I would try to dissuade her. If then, she was still determined, I would give her my blessing – she could be that exceptional one.

Music gives wings to the mind and flight to the imagination.

So their combinations with themselves and with each other give rise to endless complexities, which anyone who is to give a likely account of reality must survey.

These days there is a lot of poverty in the world, and that's a scandal when we have so many riches and resources to give to everyone. We all have to think about how we can become a little poorer.

The most faithful disciples of Christ have been builders of peace, to the point of forgiving their enemies, sometimes even to the point of giving their lives for them.

Only faith in Christ gives rise to a culture contrary to egotism and death.

The only thing that this uproar does is give aid and comfort to the enemy and I don't think there's anybody who wants to give aid and comfort to the terrorists.

I did, but I'm not real fond of giving interviews.

I'd like to have and adopt children. I think I'd be a great mom, honestly. I don't think I'll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part.

We give our dead To the orchards And the groves. We give our dead To life.

God will never give you any problems that he thinks you can't solve.

My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.

My diary has its own kind of magic. It gives me the feeling of having accomplished something. On days when I don't have time for this, I feel tortured.

Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.

With Christ, it is not how much we give, but what we do not give that is the real test.

When God gives you a vision and darkness follows, wait. God will bring the vision He has given you to reality in your life if you will wait on His timing. Never try to help God fulfill His word

When God gives a vision, transact business on that line, no matter what it costs.

Our understanding of God is the answer to prayer; getting things from God is God's indulgence of us. When God stops giving us things, He brings us into the place where we can begin to understand Him.

Whenever you get a blessing from God, give it back to Him as a love gift.

Religion gives us a place to stand outside politics, and without it we're vulnerable to a system in which the state defines everything, which is the essence of tyranny.

Meditation is the alchemy of transforming. The unconscious into the conscious. It gives you a tremendous power, Far greater than anger, greed and lust.

I am not looking like Armani today and somebody else tomorrow. I look like Ralph Lauren. And my goal is to constantly move in fashion and move in style without giving up what I am.

A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so much as a leg or a finger, they will drown him.

The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity

Being in love, rather than giving or taking love, is the only thing that provides stability. Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me.

You can't say the public likes generic characters. Give others a chance, go for a more rooted and honest characterisation, take some risk, and then let the public choose.

Theatre gives you wings as an actor.

God doesn't look at just what we give. He also looks at what we keep.

Giving jump starts our relationship with God. It opens our fists so we can receive what God has for us.

God gives us abundant material blessing so that we can give it away, and give it generously.

Philosophy ought to be able to give an account of rationality that is not wholly detached from science's account of nature, even if it is not straightforwardly reducible to it.

The source of sorrows lies not in leaving life, but in leaving that which gives it meaning.

I don't take Hollywood too seriously. I have kids that don't give a damn about what I'm shooting, they just want dinner. So that keeps me grounded.

There's no bad consequence to loving fully, comma with all your heart. You always gain by giving love.

Your body is just a vessel for who you are as a person. And until you work on what you give back to the world, it doesn't matter what you look like on the outside.

We need to give artists a lot of free room to create.

I say we all take the pledge and stay home. Thanksgiving is a day to give thanks for what you have, not to save a few dollars to get more.

When you give thanks as though you have already received what you want, you are emitting a powerful signal to the Universe.

The best way to invest corporate profits is to give them to the employees.

I can give a beautiful present, and that may change the lives of people around me.

"Do you want my honest opinion?" People ask. I say, "Yes," for I'm curious. So they give me their honest opinion, And I - well, I'm always furious.

Satires and lampoons on particular people circulate more by giving copies in confidence to the friends of the parties, than by printing them.