Giving Quotes

A generous action is its own reward.

I'm not interested in playing the girl that's just there to make the guy, you know, give him a talking to.

I don't blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to 'em? More power to 'em.

Give death announcements each time you move instead of giving announcements of the change of address. Send the same when you die.

Now clear your minds. It knows what scares you. It has from the very beginning. Don't give it any help, it knows too much already.

Success is like pumping an old well handle. You have to pump a very long time before you get water. But don't give up or you will have to start all over again.

Don't give up just because of what someone said. Use it as motivation to push harder.

The main reason for people's lack of success is their willingness to give up what they want most of all, for what they want right now!

Happiness is like a kiss, in order to get any good out of it, you have to give it to someone else.

My only policy is to profess evil and do good.

Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men - to dish it out without being able to take it - the blind leading the blind into more blindness.

A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.

Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.

It's hard to give up the being together with someone.

A thief is one who insists on sharing his victimhood.

A disciple does not ask, "How much can I keep?" but, "How much more can I give?" Whenever we start to get comfortable with our level of giving, it's time to raise it again.

Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up, and giving up is the ground floor of doing yourself in. It’s not so much, what’s the point? It’s more like, what’s the difference?

But compassion isn't about solutions. It's about giving all the love that you've got.

You will know who truly loves you when you ask them to do an uncoventional favor.

Unless we learn how to humbly tell each other our giving stories, our churches will not learn to give.

But giving up's easy. You know what's hard? To believe in your own worth, to know you've got something special in you even if nobody else can see it. Even when you can't.

Weakness, like not being able to bury the past. Weakness, like not giving up hope when you know you should.

Whenever we have excess, giving should be our natural response. It should be the automatic decision, the obvious thing to do in light of Scripture and human need.

Every gift is held by two hands: the one that gives, and the one that takes away.

I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given.

What you fear most will determine whether you merely save for the future or give for the future.

Good and evil lie close together. Seek no artistic unity in character.

Why is it that when people have no capacity for private usefulness they should be so anxious to serve the public?

Generosity is the vanity of giving.

This is a business built on promotion. We've been giving music away to radio stations for 30 years.

I don't know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.

I have this blanket thing about giving parenting advice to parents, and that's: 'Don't take other people's advice on parenting.'

As we give presents at Christmas, we need to recognize that sharing our time and ourselves is such an important part of giving.

If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.

The equality among all members of the League, which is provided in the statutes giving each state only one vote, cannot of course abolish the actual material inequality of the powers concerned.

I'm not giving up my history and what I've done in my music because I love it and I'm very proud of it. I just want to open it up for more people.

Another very strong image from the first day was giving my initial press conference in the morning - going down and finding out that everything I had said, the essence of what I had said, was wrong.

Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?

I mean you got to thank your parents for giving you the right genes.

My mom was a cheerleader and had me as a teenager. I remember her giving me some pom-poms and teaching me how to do some splits when I was 3 or 4.

A life can get knocked into a new orbit by a car crash, a lottery win or just a bleary-eyed consultant giving bad news in a calm voice.

I think ultimately I make people happy: Whether I'm doing the stage show, giving somebody a makeover, or designing clothing, the end goal is to make people smile.

I like poetry when I don't quite understand why I like it. Poetry isn't just a question of wrapping something up and giving it to someone else to unwrap. It just doesn't work like that.

The battle for freedom and liberty really never is over, and there are really low points in it, but I'm not giving up, and I'm not gonna engage in phony pep talks, either.

You've got to have faith. You've got to begin to continue to hope and not give up on others.

Life is not about giving up or giving in. Life is about giving.

I'm not giving up on life. I'm giving up on today.

Never give up! There's always hope because there's always help

Give back to the world at least what you've received.

Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one.