Giving Quotes

They say fortune is a woman and capricious. But sometimes she is a good woman, and gives to those who merit.

In the love of a brave and faithful man there is always a strain of maternal tenderness; he gives out again those beams of protecting fondness which were shed on him as he lay on his mother's knee.

We reap what we sow, but nature has love over and above that justice, and gives us shadow and blossom and fruit, that spring from no planting of ours.

Capitalism begins with giving.

Many schools include a service project as part of their curriculum, and many corporations have in-house projects for their employees or give them time off to do volunteer work.

There are things we can do to give us a little more attention.... I've got to look more frantic.

...won't you give some bread to get the starving fed

The best thing you can give is God consciousness. Manifest your own divinity first. The truth is there. It's right within us all. Understand what you are.

You can't understand the first thing about God unless you love Him. These big so - called Vedic scholars - they don't necessarily love Krishna, so they can't understand Him and give Him to us.

Prabhupada's definitely affected the world in an absolute way. What he was giving us was the highest literature, the highest knowledge. I mean there just isn't anything higher.

Now it may seem so far from where we all are It's something we can't neglect It's something I can't neglect Now won't you give some bread to get the starving fed

The aim is to get as much going out the back as is coming in. You've got to do that because for everything you get in you've got to give something out.

The greatest thing anyone can give humanity is God consciousness.

Just take the music, the goodness, because it's the very best, and it's the part I give most willingly.

Who gives to all, denies all.

A gift much expected is paid, not given.

The hard gives more then he that hath nothing.

The healthfull man can give counsell to the sick.

The good mother sayes not, Will you? but gives.

To a gratefull man give mony when he askes.

What one day gives us, another takes away from us. [What one day gives, another takes away from us.]

Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like season'd timbered, never gives; But though the whole world turn to coal, Then chiefly lives.

To a close shorn sheep, God gives wind by measure.

Great almes-giving lessens no mans living.

He can give little to his servant, that lickes his knife. [He can give little to his servant that licks his knife.]

Give not S. Peter so much, to leave Saint Paul nothing. [Give not Saint Peter so much, to leave Saint Paul nothing.]

He that gives all before hee dies provides to suffer.

He that lends, gives.

He that will not have peace, God gives him warre. [He that will not have peace, God gives him war.]

He that's long a giving, knowes not how to give.

Hee that gives thee a bone, would not have thee die.

If the old dog barke he gives counsell. [If the old dog barks, he gives counsel.]

Promising is the eve of giving.

Fooles give to please all but their owne.

Give loosers leave to talke.

Giving is dead, restoring very sicke.

Giving much to the poore, doth inrich a mans store. [Giving much to the poor doth increase a man's store.]

There’s no easier way to cure foolishness than to give a man leave to be foolish. And the only way to show a fellow that he’s chosen the wrong business is to let him try it.

It is expedient to have acquaintance with those who have looked into the world, who know men, understand business, and can give you good intelligence and good advice when they are wanted.

After the first couple of years recording I did a lot of praying. I said, 'Lord, please give me a hit.' I want one so bad.

In Giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.

One of the grandest things in having rights is, that though they are your rights you may give them up

Fortify yourself with a flock of friends! There is always at least one who will understand, inspire, and give you the lift you may need at the time.

The song seraphically free Of taint of personality, So pure that it salutes the suns The voice of one for millions, In whom the millions rejoice For giving their one spirit voice.

Instead of three networks you have three hundred or three thousand. Audiences are inundated with programming, and that sometimes gives them a sense of petulant entitlement.

I think marriage is a good thing for children, because it gives them a feeling of security.

We have to be pretty tough with mortgage companies and say you have got to give people the chance to work out their debts, sort out future mortgages.

But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure.

Give a thing a name and it will somehow come to be.

If the day comes when you would find me again, give that coin to any man from Braavos, and say these words to him--valar morghulis.