Giving Quotes

Strict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest virtue which can give force to an otherwise utterly insignificant character.

It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.

Christian giving is to be marked by self-sacrifice and self-forgetfuln ess, not by self-congratula tion.

His authority on earth allows us to dare to go to all the nations. His authority in heaven gives us our only hope of success. And His presence with us leaves us with no other choice.

Why are you so docile when you give up your child to a government agent called a schoolteacher?

There's only now, there's only here. Give in to love, or live in fear. No other path, no other way, no day but today.

Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.

Women give life! That on its own is inspiring.Besides, women are prettier than men.

Cheerful givers do not count the cost of what they give.

Shouldn't it give us pause that the oldest works of art are as impressive today in their beauty and spontaneity as they were many thousands of years ago?

A little flattery makes people feel good about themselves. When you notice someone looking great, give them a compliment.

Think of the world as a loving place that is designed to give you everything that you need.

You find with the really great actors, the ones you really admire and look up to, very often they're very giving, generous, warm people.

If you want everything, you first have to give everything up.

The measure of true giving is to share with someone who has no platform from which to speak and may never benefit us in any way. After all, isn't that what true love is all about?

The important things are to train hard, and not give up hope.

Shyness has laws you can only give yourself; tragically to those who least understand.

I like it when the waiter askes you if you want parmesan cheese on your dinner, yeah, give me essence of puke all over me tea!

I'd forgotten it's an important thing to give thought to your morality and how you intend to live your life.

A rough should have high grass. When you go bowling they don't give you anything for landing in the gutter, do they?

To receive a present handsomely and in a right spirit, even when you have none to give in return, is to give one in return.

Ring the bells that still can ring.

I don't really sit in the sun I have a flagstone terrace surrounding the swimming pool and just carrying the script from the office to the living room gives me an instant suntan.

Making and cheerfully keeping our covenants gives validity and life to the vital sacred and saving ordinances we need to receive in order to obtain all that the Father hath.

Giving anyone anything takes courage, since so many presents backfire. A gift conspicuously at odds with your tastes serves only to betray that the benefactor has no earthly clue who you are.

You try to give away what you want yourself.

The Principle which gives life dwells in us, and without us, is undying and beneficent, is not heard or seen or smelt, but it is perceived by the man who desires perception.

Dress gives one the outward sign from which people in general can, and often do, judge upon the inward state of mind and feelings.

I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. I simply want to please my own conscience which is God.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself; you will never err if you listen to your own suggestions.

Poems not only demand patience, they demand a kind of surrender. You must give yourself up to them. This is the real food for a poet: other poems, not meat loaf.

When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.

A person in torment is not going to give you anything.

Believing hear, what you deserve to hear: Your birthday as my own to me is dear... But yours gives most; for mine did only lend Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.

If halfway love is all you want or all you care to give, why bother with love at all and only halfway live.

The telephone gives us the happiness of being together yet safely apart.

I want to get paid for doing my job and whoever don't like it or whoever don't give me my just due then that's on them.

Step into giving. Purpose is about cultivating something within YOU and then GIVING it away to other people.

Every performance is different, but I try to approach them in the same way and give it my all.

I always bring cash for tips, and I never give less than $20. I used to work in a smoothie shop, so I know the value of a tip.

When all that's left of me is love, Give me away.

My goal in life is to give to the world what I was lucky to receive: the ecstasy of divine union through my music and my dance.

I hate the idea that you have to give up anything. I think you can be powerful and still be provocative, you can be smart and have a softness, you can have all of it.

Bands that have positive lyrics that give people hope, I applaud them, you know I think we need to see more bands come out like that. I think it is great.

I like to have a peek, see what the audience is doing during the opening act, because it gives you a clue and gives you a good feeling of where you are - the air can be different in different places.

My wife can't figure out what to buy me. What do you give a man who's had everything up to here?

If I can give you any advice, I beg you to get closer to the Eucharist and to Jesus... We must pray to Jesus to give us that tenderness of the Eucharist.

I went to school, but they didn't give you too much schooling because just as soon as you was big enough, you get to working in the fields. I guess I was a big boy for my age.

Silence always gives consent.

I brought Bhagawad Gita as a gift for the Japanese PM...I don't have anything better than Gita to give & nor does the World has anything better to receive.