Giving Quotes

Growing up, I realized as an actor I had to figure out how to use my platform in order to give back.

We happily give up our freedom and our income in exchange for having someone else take responsibility for telling us what to do next.

Giving your team cover for their cowardice is foolish. Give them a platform for bravery instead.

Giving people what they want isn't always what they want.

Leaders who set out to give are more productive than leaders who seek to get.

Give up control and give it away ... The more you give your idea away, the more your company is going to be worth.

Too often, we don't give people the opportunity to fill in the blanks.

You can't control other people, and giving them the power to decide if you will continue to produce good work is foolish.

Sooner or later, many idealists transform themselves into disheartened realists who mistakenly believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic.

The way you feel about giving money to good causes has a lot to do with the way you feel about money.

I've found that giving gifts is transformative. It makes me better. It clarifies my thinking and allows me to do better work.

Great boss is challenging people in the right way. Leading, not managing. Supporting them by giving them both a platform they can count on and expectations they can stretch for.

I feel like if I won an award and I was giving my speech and the music started, that's all I'd remember, the humiliation I felt when the music started. It would mar the entire experience for me.

Fools give you reasons and wise men never try.

Sustainable development is not an option! It is the only path that allows all of humanity to share a decent life on this, one planet. Rio+20 gives our generation the opportunity to choose this path.

In the modern-day world, where time is premium and battle for subsistence is unimaginably tough, the hapless common man simply gives in and pays the bribe just to get on with life.

You have only 30 seconds with a new person. I will give you a hug so you know I’m real, and then you’re real too.

I think in the end, God's justice is redemptive, it's restorative, it's about giving life, not taking life.

I prefer cozy and warm to stark and sterile. You don't have to spend a lot of money to give your place personality.

Right now I'd like all my troubles to stand in front of me in a straight line, and one by one I'd give each a black eye.

I can see that one can never pay back Gilsa for the fear that she will give again.

Eggs give me protein after a good work out. The cheesier, the better!

I don't get tired. I get beat up. You keep chopping on a tree, you need to give the tree some rest so the chlorophyll will fill back up and the tree gets its energy back.

I'm very educated and can give you somewhat of a vocabulary, but I don't get to the philosophical side.

By giving our audience intimate access to the lives of musicians, we hope to raise awareness of the region's beautiful cultural heritage and present a more nuanced portrait of its people.

All the women in Pakistan working for change, don't give up on your dreams, this is for you.

I would not give up a lot of what I know about my heritage. I would not give up knowing where I came from, the good parts and the bad parts.

I enjoy receiving and giving realistic fiction, for both children and adults, with strong characters, beautiful language, and humane visions.

I just want to give my love to God.

I'm coming back to give the people what they want.

Having the balance to be able to stay on the board in skating and surfing gives you all-around much better balance.

Happiness is actually an individual choice, even in the midst of negative circumstances. It's not something our employers can give to us, though they can limit and influence that choice.

Think Give. Not Get. Nothing has the power to positively change your world more.

Give me some credit for the hell I've paid.

Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected.

I've been around fighters enough to know that you have to be able to give 100 percent of your effort and time into training for a sport.

When I was in Russia I found that I thought I was going to give these people that I was interviewing a whole bunch of choice in terms of what they could drink while we were chatting.

I didn't really give them anymore than one choice, soda or no soda. They didn't... whereas we put a lot of stock in the differences between soda.

If you truly have expertise - and expertise can be say a chess master who has really mastered something or an artist or a musician of some sort you know if you give a jazz musician.

You know give me choices that are truly different from one another, otherwise they don't regard them as meaningful choices.

You might not have thought it possible to give birth to others before one has given birth to oneself, but I assure you it is quite possible, it has been done; I offer myself in evidence as Exhibit A.

It's fun to give pleasure to people.

People are always giving you credit for really wanting to say more than you said.

Sometimes it seems to me that in this absurdly random life there is some inherent justice in the outcome of personal relationships. In the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to give.

I want to give you back your first kiss, the one that jerk stole from you. And I want it to be something that even a coma can't make you forget.

I drink to not giving a damn . . .

Estranged from the tribe that gives no protection, What happens to the soul that hates its reflection?

You can take my life, but you'll never break me. So bring me your worst... And I will definitely give you mine.

I give you points for persistence, but you lose a few for being slow on the uptake. (Rae)

Move or die. (Quills) Never give someone a choice that doesn’t leave them with any way out except to hurt you. (Devyn)