Giving Quotes

Altruism became the sole legitimate motivation for giving a kidney. And it is a partial - I say a partial failure.

I feel the horror audience is a great audience, and I would ideally make a movie that would give them as much energy as they're willing to give to the picture.

I would like to give you more of my heart,but there is nothing more I can give you. I gave you everything and you crushed it into bits.

Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.

Let him that desires to see others happy, make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed, and remember that every moment of delay takes away something from the value of his benefaction.

When I'm starting to feel, "How many more people are there?" I go slower. I ask questions, and that person engaging with me gives me energy.

I give extraordinary attention to military active duty, reserve and National Guard, and their families.

If the lyrics have meaning to it and it gives me a certain emotion, I think that's the most beautiful part about music - you can feel it and connect to it.

You can't make any one person your world. The trick is to take what each can give you and build a world from it.

I've always written in first person. It gives the readers more insight.

I really like directors who give you a certain amount of autonomy because I think a lot about my characters and I think a lot about scenes and choices.

In the lives of great men, neither did fate give up, NOR DID THEY.

You should always be learning. The fitness industry is always changing, especially with digital media giving it out anytime.

My father used to take off his belt and give me a crack. And I'm all right.

Acting is a lifelong love affair, and I am passionate and respect my craft to the utmost degree, which gives me the strength to move on from adversity in my work.

Whatever we give to the wretched, we lend to fortune.

It would be impossible for me to give you a list of the top 10 songs that shake my life. Far more music went in to it than just ten.

Partake of this sacred mystery: to take the place of others, giving them his own.

I'll be staying in touch and keeping my fans and friends updated on my progress. I'm looking forward to getting back on the road to give the people what they want.

Generosity is giving until it makes you uncomfortable.

I realized that Judaism required me to give up something that meant too much to me...Bacon cheeseburgers.

People won't give you feedback until they think you actually want it.

Poverty doesn’t give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor.

If you allow your rhythm to be interrupted, you'll create a void. Then to replace what you give up, you'll start to expect and need more from your partner.

If we can genuinely honor our mother and father we are not only at peace with ourselves but we can then give birth to our future.

I like the feeling that I'm giving young women self-confidence. It sounds so cliched, but it can be very moving.

John Lennon was brilliant, so gifted, so giving. He was the Bach, Beethoven, the Rachmaninoff of our time.

Social technology gives leaders a vital new platform with which to connect their companies to the myriad stakeholders who have an interest in their well being.

The courage of leadership is giving others the chance to succeed even though you bear the responsibility for getting things done.

My own perception was that although it kind of sucks to be stuck in a contract you signed a long time ago, when you're having success, it gives you some leverage.

I just don't want to give them my name and say, 'Do whatever you want.' I am trying to create my brand.

You can always, and easily, give somebody the gift of hope and faith, even in the midst of despair.

Sacrifice does not mean that, by giving, we lose something. We sacrifice our limited self to our highest and largest Self, and at that time we immediately become the largest and the highest Self.

What kind of Yoga do you want to practice, the Yoga of getting or the Yoga of giving?... One enslaves, the other liberates.

Longing gives you the power to bless. Bless the entire creation. For, the longing in you is God.

When you make Service your sole purpose in life, it eliminates fear, focuses your mind and gives you meaning.

Know what it is the emotional statement to convey, and use taste and judgement to help the actors give their best possible performance.

The idea that academics should remain ''above the fray'' only gives ideologues license to misuse our work.

Ah! the spendthrift, love: it gives all and everything with the first sigh!

When you realize that you are an eternal being, you will laugh at things that used to give you anxiety attacks.

My character is self-important, poorly informed, well-intentioned but an idiot. So we said, 'Let's give him a promotion.'

Humor is the fastest, fleetest way of giving -it can change pain to joy in a mere millisecond.

It matters if you don't just give up.

I believe art should be an integral part of life. I try to give my work an almost magical energy that makes the viewer feel good.

I don't have nightmares; I give them all to you.

When people are nasty, it gets everybody's attention, and it gives them a name.

The demands of following Christ will cost you everything. But you gain far more than you give up. You give up dirt for diamonds.

Music is about giving and about searching and so that is the spirit....because without spirit, music is just notes.

Absolute truisms rot brains absolutely.[...]'Power corrupts' is useless as a tool for understanding the past, and gives us nothing as a guide to action.

I decree today that life is simply taking and not giving, England is mine and it owes me a living.