Giving Quotes

He gives before he is asked.

Few take up the burden of their own victory; most give up their dreams when these become impossible.

The search for happiness is purely personal and not a model we can give to others.

Working from nine till five every day at something that gives you no pleasure just so that, after thirty years, you can retire.

you would have to give up all else, I alone would expect you to be your sole and exclusive standard

If you give your life as a prayer, you intensify the prayer beyond all measure.

The best way to come to terms with anything that is out of harmony is never to fear it - that gives it power. Bring good influences to bear upon it; make yourself a good example.

Just as you cannot receive without giving, so neither can you give without receiving.

The price of peace is to abandon greed and replace it with giving, so that none will be spiritually injured by having more than they need while others in the world still have less than they need.

How can you give a man a room in a house and not let him come through the front door?

Conscience is the name which the orthodox give to their prejudices.

Why should we refuse the happiness this hour gives us, because some other hour might take it away?

Anger can give energy to the mind but only if it is harnessed and held in control.

Giving life to music through skating was something I wanted to be known for

He is the greatest player in the world right now, without a doubt, he is the player who gives Brazilians the most joy. (on Ronaldinho)

Surely you have to succeed, if you give everything you have.' 'I don't see why. Everyone has to give everything they have eventually. They have to die. Dying can't be called a success.

[On Watermelon Man:] ... it is impossible to look at this film without its giving you a share in its insane bad taste, which is rather companionable of it.

When I buy Windows 98, I'm not only buying something useful, I'm giving money to Bill Gates, which is a really good thing.

The fact is that violence gives you a rush.

Oscar Wilde said that the gods punish us in two ways: first, they don't give us what we want, then, they do. He forgot the third way: we finally see the cost of getting it.

Every year, something happens, and it turns me in a direction about where I need to go and what I need to do to give these guys direction.

I'm not going to give in to the critics. I'm going to stop on my own terms, not on when someone else thinks I should.

Give blood, but you may find that blood is not enough.

Give the public what they want. What you want is unimportant.

I don't get on stage and give a social diatribe. I am a performer and an entertainer.

Anecdotes, personal stories, reminiscences, like biblical parables, are the medium through which faith is restored. Stories are a form of poetry, and give us a saving image to personally relate to.

We need to be a leadership position about protecting minors on the Internet and, more importantly, giving the parents the tools they need to protect them.

No society can function as a society, unless it gives the individual member social status and function, and unless the decisive social power is legitimate.

To the critics: You always complain that Hollywood never gives you new stuff, and then when you get it, you flip out. Lighten up.

Never, ever, take a "no" from someone who's not empowered to give you a "yes" in the first place.

I really had spent my whole life playing soccer, and the fact that I was willing to give that up for theater, that told me I was moving in that direction.

I get asked to read new works a lot, in the hope that I will give a quotation and I will only give a 'puff' for a book I truly love.

There's real evidence that getting involved in charitable activity (and it's probably better to give your time and effort, rather than money) makes people happier.

Because people are afraid of fear, they give up acre after acre of their own life.

If you're not playing a big enough game, you'll screw up the game you're playing just to give yourself something to do.

A 20-year-old is never going to give death a second thought, whereas someone in their late 50s is going to think about it... I don't know, 20 times a day.

I give everything my best shot and sometimes it doesn't work out and other times it works out much better than you thought.

Writing poetry is the only form of literary labour which gives me entire satisfaction.

If you earn a lot of money, you can give away a lot of money.

Bomb Disposal Is a face off with your own mortality. Don't let the fear get to you. When you give in to the fear, the Darkness Comes.

Kevin Kline gives a master class in acting. He finds every nuance of mirth and melancholy in this wonder of a role and rides it to glory. You can't take your eyes off him.

The books [and games] that give us the most pleasure combine uncertainty and satisfaction, tension and release.

Authority is 20% given and 80% taken...so take it!

If you feel like you're working with good people, you give them your humanity and just let it happen.

My mic is a Magnum. See me and this chick, we go back like Cro-Magnon. Man...we did it in the back of your Magnum; I said, 'Put them Lifestyles back, give me the Magnums.'

They're the only ones brave enough to give me these opportunities [on being offered a soundtrack!]

The reality is (Clinton's) so-called tax cut is basically giving money to people who largely don't pay taxes, so that it's really spending rather than a tax cut, ... This Week.

I'm gonna give all I've got to giveCross my heart, and I hope to live.

This is what happens in prisons I think you're not giving the prisoners the credit for how ingenious they are.

Giving me a a new idea is like handing a cretin a gun, but I do thank you anyhow, bang bang.