Giving Quotes

If I'm going to give up the single life, it better be good - because I'm having fun!

You have the ability to give so much to the world by emitting feelings of love and well-being, despite what is happening around you.

Purpose is a soft virtue- but it's what gives you steel in your spine.

Put your passions to work to make this world a better place.

Books alone are liberal and free; they give to all who ask; they emancipate all who serve them faithfully.

The path to survival was to never give up on the small things.

If the work is going well and it's something that has value with some meaning to it, it gives back a lot.

When I go to bed, I ask God to give me one more day tomorrow. When I get it, I'm excited and grateful.

Even a small match lit in a place of total darkness gives off a blinding light.

It started off really…claustrophobic. I feel like I was really really protected. Really guarded with myself. I feel like they [Def Jam] were giving me the blueprint and I couldn’t get with that

For many, 'desire' is a bad word, something we're supposed to 'give up for God.' That kind of thinking can be really destructive because it teaches people to deny their hearts, their true selves.

My friends and family definitely helped me with the biggest obstacle in my life, which was just staying in L.A. long enough to really give it a shot.

Age does not bring wisdom... but it does give perspective... and the saddest sight of all is to see, far behind you, temptations you've resisted.

I'll give you the same advice I give my children: Never take advice from anybody.

The candle is not lit To give light, but to testify to the night.

I'm discovering that everybody is a closet quotesmith. Just give them a chance.

The Lord gives us friends to push us to our potential — and enemies to push us beyond it.

The trick to getting ahead is to give it the same effort you give to getting even.

Let's get my incantation right: "I wish I may, I wish I might" Give earth another satellite.

No psychological message is so open to question as that which tells us that we have nothing left to do or to give.

The mind which can totally and inanely forget its work and obligations is often also the mind which can, at the proper time, give them the fullest attention.

God's forgiving grace is incomplete until he gives me - and I accept - a new kingdom-building dream and opportunity.

When we laugh we temporarily give ourselves over to the person who makes us laugh.

You're all mad for words. Words are just farts from a lot of fools who have swallowed too many books. Give me things!

Now you can't even carry a nail clipper on a plane. Are they afraid you're going to go..."All right! Give me the plane or the b*tch loses her cuticle." ?

Along with the Oscars, the Academy is giving out a green card.

What kind of man gives cigarettes to trees?

Give yourself room to make mistakes because you're human. We've got to make mistakes, and allow ourselves to make those mistakes.

Historians will likely give Obama credit for steering the country away from the brink of economic collapse in 2009.

I've written and passed laws to give Medicare beneficiaries access to life saving cancer drugs and to ensure that seniors don't have to give up the prospect of a cure when they go into hospice care.

The key to a good relationship is the key. Give me back the key.

I think that the biggest challenge for me making films is how much of your life you give to something. Shooting the film requires 14-hour days, six days a week.

Nightingales are put in cages because their songs give pleasure. Whoever heard of keeping a crow?

Be drunk with Love, for Love is all that exists. Where is intimacy found if not in the give and take of Love.

John Wesley said that if you give up the witchcraft, you must give up the Bible. He is right. The choice is easy for me.

I think giving great content out to people is critical, and exclusive, cool content they've never seen before is the best way to go.

College education gives you the chance to earn money and live thereupon. But, umless it destroys certain illusions that are nourished by the common level of mankind, your lives will not be happy.

He who made thee is made in thee. He is made in thee through whom you were made.... Give milk, O mother, to him who is our food; give milk to the bread that comes down from heaven.

For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next.

Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo (Give me chastity and continence, but not just yet)!

So give to the poor; I'm begging you, I'm warning you, I'm commanding you, I'm ordering you.

Not to give to those in need what is to you superfluous is akin to fraud.

I think if I was not in love, I would probably let myself go faster. Love gives me the vanity to continue.

The thought of somebody pulling and cutting around my face gives me stomach ache. Plastic surgery would be so painful. What if it doesn't look good? What if they made a mistake? I couldn't do it.

I think as a rough estimate, you should aim to give about 10% of the company to the first 10 employees.

I can't give a decent toast to save my life.

If you can't give me your word of honour, will you give me your promise?

Give credit to whom credit due.

I find my wife hath something in her gizzard, that only waits an opportunity of being provoked to bring up; but I will not, for my content-sake, give it.

Temptation turns you. It makes you into something you never dreamed, it presses you to give up everything you ever loved, it calls you to sell your soul for one, fleeting moment.