Giving Quotes

I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.

[N]o one's ever been able to show me any difference between democracy and brute force. It's just a majority ganging up on a minority with the minority giving in to avoid getting massacred.

It's the character that is the strongest that God gives the most challenges to. Take your struggles as a compliment.

Slowly I came to know that the depth of our heartbreaks determines the depth of our faith. God gives us everything to conquer the big and the little hurts of life.

We have drained common sense out of our politics. The more we focus on tactics and games, the more good people check out and give up

It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem

If you give a cracker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is carve his initials in it. Fortunately, most crackers get over that once they're through puberty.

Now [after doing Pilates], I have muscles of steel and could easily deal with giving birth.

I love my dogs and I give them affection all the time but it has to be at the right time or they get confused.

The function of ritual, as I understand it, is to give form to human life, not in the way of a mere surface arrangement, but in depth.

Give a man enough rope and he'll wrap himself around your little finger.

Tell me I'm beautiful, it's nothing. Tell me I'm intellectual - I know it. Tell me I'm funny and it's the greatest compliment in the world anyone could give me.

Keeping libraries open, giving access to all children to all books is vital to our nation's sovereignty.

You are a Queen. Let mine be the joy of giving you your kingdom.

"Why doesn't the fellow who says, "I'm no speechmaker," let it go at that instead of giving a demonstration? "

You have not learned to live until you have learned to give

Give until tears stream down your eyes.

You earn influence by giving value and attention to other people. BE USEFUL!

Why are we inspired by another person's courage? Maybe because it gives us the sweet and genuine surprise of discovering some trace, at least, of the same courage in ourselves.

I told myself if I ever made it to the level I want to be at, I'm gonna give back.

You create your own life and your work. Give us your best.

Isn't it amazing that God gives breath to a man who is going to blaspheme Him all day!

Ive zeroed in on what you would call action and excellence... Everybody who does anything to try to succeed has to give the best of themselves, and art has made me pull the best out of myself.

I wouldn't give a performer something I couldn't deliver myself.

Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.

Olduvai Gorge gives us one of the most remarkable stories of the past-the last chapter of the Earth's history, starting at the present day, right away back 2 million years.

...in a time lacking in truth and certainty and filled with anguish and despair, no woman should be shamefaced in attempting to give back to the world, through her work, a portion of its lost heart.

Love is the divine quality that everywhere produces and restores life. To each and every one of us, it gives the power of working miracles if we will.

There is nothing worse than giving the longest of legs to the smallest of ideas.

I'd like to think I am taking people on a journey; I am not just entertaining people, but giving them something to think about when they leave.

He hadn't realized yet that Gansey could persuade even the sun to pause and give him the time.

Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is exhilarating and life giving.

To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.

The universe is already programmed to give each of us a year of happiness. Our challenge lies in programming ourselves to receive it.

When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it turned out to be just the opposite. That's when the sparkle started for me.

Withhold admiration from a narcissist and be disliked. Give it and be treated with indifference.

I'm singing these songs to inspire you, to keep you going, to lift you up and give you a reason to get up in the morning

What is this love that endures decades, passes on sleep, and resists death to give one kiss? Call it agape love, a love that bears a semblance of God's.

Silent moments are valuable! They give you a good opportunity to design new paths in your life!

A song is a mantra, something you repeat over and over. We need peace, we need giving, we need love, we need unity. I want the whole world to sing this song.

The happiness and the joy that I see in the eyes of the children. They saved my life so I want to, give it back. I'm not joking.

Aiming at giving our kids a competitive edge in a consumer society - that, in principle, is a goal that is limitless.

We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.

He who gives early gives twice.

Most attorneys practice law because it gives them a grand and glorious feeling. You give them a grand - and they feel glorious.

If you give what you do not need, it is not giving.

We have very little, so we have nothing to be preoccupied with. The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have, the more free you are.

If you disclose your alms, even then it is well done, but if you keep them secret, and give them to the poor, then that is better still for you;?and this wipes off from you some of your evil deeds.

Exercising gives me endorphins and energy. I do it four days a week.

Give me a treat, or leave me alone. It's Monday.