Giving Quotes

Success itself doesn't give you happiness. It's what you do with your success that gives you happiness.

Why are women immobile? Because so many feel like they’re waiting for someone to say, "You’re good, you’re pretty, I give you permission."

The most helpful piece of advice that I could give to anybody is to select a charity, or create a charity, that you really feel passionate about and if you do, don't give up.

I think it's one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent.

The tour bus was supposed to be here ten minutes ago. Would it be possible to give them a ring to check they've not forgotten us?

It's cool to have instruments lying around because they give you different ideas.

When you birth a child, it's like a bloody giving of self to the creation of a life.

As for literature It gives no man a sinecure. And no one knows, at sight, a masterpiece. And give up verse, my boy, There's nothing in it.

I trust that the president will try, just give it one more shot, some revolutionary way of not doing this, of bringing all those kids back home safely.

I'm merely trying to give you the sort of argument that would appeal to your intelligence.

The mouth was wide open and ripped at the corners, as though she had choked a little in giving up the tremendous vitality she had stored so long.

Why must it be in human nature to hear one thing but to believe in another?" "Because we want things to get better," I said. "Otherwise we would all give up.

For me, poetry is a form of activism. And that word enables the labelers, and also gives them a rash.

When somebody walks into a room they give off a certain kind of vibe or whatever and at that point that's how you're going to cast them.

I think it takes a larger nature to receive nobly than to give nobly.

Advice is like a doctor's pills; how easily he gives them! how reluctantly he takes them when his turn comes!

The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not of course, give them the feelings and manners of gentle folks.

Stress is what feeds your cancer. Stress is what gives you cancer and then there's the paparazzi giving you stress.

I really don't like to go for the stereotypes. I try to give you characters that you don't know until you get to know them, and [decide] how you should feel about them.

I know I'm sane I don't give a care for the crown or the shield I will not protect you or happily yield To the one who makes me come undone

I thoroughly object to getting old. If you could let me be 16 again, I'd give you everything I've got and everything I'll ever have.

It is important not to give the appearance of a predisposed mind. And it is more important not to let the mind become predisposed.

True literature should rouse the reader, unsettle him, change his view of the world, give him a resolute push over the cliff of self-knowledge

I feel more comfortable being honest because I don't have to "remember" my answers. You never forget the truth! I just have to learn how much truth to give, that's my boundary. That's my new thing.

When you give people so much, you don't have anything left for yourself.

Cubans joke and satirize everything that life gives them, and I think that's a positive characteristic.

Give to each emotion a personality, to each state of mind a soul.

The Gods sell when they give. Glory is paid for with disgrace. Poor are the happy, for they are Just what passes.

It [Thanksgiving] was founded by the Puritans to give thanks for bein' preserved from the Indians, an' we keep it to give thanks we are preserved from the Puritans.

So long as I could write things down I could give up talking for a VERY long time.

I didn't want to be precious about things. Of course, the idea is to make great music, but if you have great musicians up there, it gives me some leeway to play around a little bit.

For me, writing clarifies things. It gives meaning, and it makes me see the connections.

I feel a responsibility to the fans who have paid to see me and I want to give as good a show as I possibly can.

Making a wish is like saying, 'I can't deal with anything, I give up, somebody bigger come along and solve it all instead.

What has dawned on me is that focusing on the "finite planet" frame sends a message that we have gone as far as Nature can take us and therefore we need to give power to forces outside Nature.

A business is good if it gives a decent day's reward for a decent day's work, treats people decently, and gives them a voice at the top.

To give liberty to a slave before he understands its value is, perhaps, rather to impose a penalty than to bestow a blessing.

I am constantly thinking ahead to what I want to write about in the future, and when I'm done with one project, I give myself a little time and then start the next one.

Pain can give you sight or make you blind.

The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.

Money is a great treasure that only increases as you give it away.

Lukewarm people will serve God and others, but there are limits to how far they will go or how much time, money, and energy they are willing to give.

We give our kids vaccinations. That's a biological enhancement that's considered not just acceptable but actually admirable.

The trust is a matter of love and faith is a matter of truth. The two together give you the guidance that you look for.

O who would trust this world, or prize what's in it, That gives and takes, and chops and changes, ev'ry minute?

The exceeding delight we take in talking about ourselves should give us cause to fear that we are giving but very little pleasureto our listeners.

Those who give too much attention to trifling things become generally incapable of great ones.

We give nothing so freely as advice.

The smallest fault of women who give themselves up to love is to love.

The applause we give those who are new to society often proceeds from a secret envying of those already established.