Giving Quotes

Really to succeed, we must give; of our souls to the soulless, of our love to the lonely, of our intelligence to the dull. Business is quite as much a process of giving as it is of getting.

There is an invariable law that the only way to keep the real things of life is by sharing them or giving them away.

The frightened walk away when love is difficult. I know that now. You have to be willing to give everything away. You have to be willing to end up with nothing. Only then will your heart be whole.

We have to give our poor, innocent, and undeserving-of-our-badness characters trouble in order to make them characters in a story.

He would find his Susie,inside his young son. Give that love to the living.

Love will come find you Just to remind you Of who you are [...] See that's the thing about love [...] Then life It will embrace you Totally amaze you So you don't give up

If I can remain excited about the music that I'm giving you, then you're damn sure going to be excited about it.

Why give up before we try Feel the lows before the highs Clip our wings before we fly away I can't say I came prepared I'm suspended in the air Won't you come be in the sky with me

I definitely want to act, but I also want to score movies, and I have this idea to fuse classical music with other styles that would give it a different perception.

If your family - just because they're blood doesn't mean that they necessarily give you the best advice.

I would like to continue making music and acting in projects that give me a lot of satisfaction.

When I was 8 years old, my brother was making the noises of the animals I was eating, so I decided to go vegetarian. Then I would give up because I was 8.

I always love directing because it gives me a chance to be with everyone 24/7.

Ineffective or weak brain connections are pruned in much the same way a gardener would prune a tree or bush, giving the plant a desired shape.

Kate [DiCamillo] tends to be more reluctant about change. I convinced her to give it a try and she came over.

Every time someone opens up to me, it just feels like a gift they're giving me, because it's a chance to experience another human being.

Bacon, Locke, Descartes, Hume, and all the others knew they were giving rights to vulgarity. But in so doing in addition to caring for man's well-being they were providing rights for themselves.

When you're playing live, those people who you're trying to please and reach, they're right there giving you feedback. And you don't get that feedback in the studio.

Leaders of nations, and people whose wealth or fame gives them power over the lives of others quite often do more harm than good.

The spirit of science is not to prejudge, but to give any honest query a fair shake.

Even on the most tiresome of days, I need to give my daughter and husband one hundred percent of my energy. They deserve that love, and in the end, it only fuels my energy.

Give me everything you have," I told [Preston]. "Really, Cammie. I never knew you thought of me that way.

i drink caffeine" she said calmly "lot's of it gives you pep

If the student could give up her work on my advice, she had better give it up without it. One does not study for a goal. The goal is a mere accident.

I like to think I'm generally accessible, but I give readers the benefit of the doubt of being reasonably culturally-literate.

How, then, shall God give himself entirely to that one who, besides his God, loves creatures still?

I'm loyal and very good about giving people opportunities.

If Senator Obama becomes pro-life then I'll consider giving him my vote.

Whatever I'm doing, I try to give it everything.

I think one of the greatest gifts you can give to someone is just access to the possibility of freedom that you don't have to be totally depressed and enslaved by your own environment.

Center Stage focused on the drive and what it's like to be a student, and this is what it's like to be an adult and what you need to give up in the pursuit of that passion and that focus.

Love for me is comfort. I feel most loved and most capable of giving love when I am around people or in places that make me comfortable.

I think I sing with more emotion but with less technical perfection. I prefer to sing with my natural voice and use my instinct - it's easier for me to give emotion.

SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact that God knew why giving it its peculiar sanctity.

In india, it's hard not to have Gandhi as a hero. To give up everything - including power and money - and to live for his countrymen, that beats everything else. He's a role model of selflessness.

Give space to life. Give time to sprout your potential - the potential to awaken the beauty in you. Awaken the beauty of your heart - the beauty of your spirit. There are infinite possibilities.

Sympathy wanting, all is wanting; its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us m human communion, and gives us to company, conversation, and ourselves.

A check on itself, evil subserves the economies of good, as it were a condiment to give relish to good.

Jerusalem has been - and for many, still is - a metaphor for destruction and the vengeance of an offended God. She is the city where believers have killed unbelievers to give life to faith.

Oftentimes, we get advice from people who are not equipped to give it, and it does more harm than good.

When my kids wanted to give up on things, I wouldn't let them, and those are lifelong lessons.

You must give and receive love only when doing so doesn't hurt others. That's the ethical path, and you should gain strength from walking it.

Giving never happens by accident. It's always intentional.

I agree that dreams seem to be involved in laying down memories but I realise that dreaming gives us access to a part of our brain we do not normally have access to.

I listen. I like to give advice. Mostly, Ill just try to listen to my friends, and theyll say the same thing over and over again.

They know where happiness lies, not in a cave or a country, but in love and the freedom to give and take what has been there all along.

All forms of birth--physical, intellectual, spiritual or emotional--bring one to the depths. The power to give birth originates in the creative life spirit birthing all, the seen and the unseen.

I will probably only give birth to two and then the rest will come to our family however it happens. I can only hold two, but you never know. I really want a boy because boys love their mamas!

[On Paris:] A city never entirely known, yet which gives you the feeling of intimacy, of possessing it intimately.

I like extravagance. Letters which give the postman a stiff back to carry, books which overflow from their covers, sexuality which bursts the thermometers.