Giving Quotes

You ever get sick and one of your friends gives you medical advice? And they tell you that they're not a doctor - like you didn't know it?

I try to teach my students that books are a mirror, reflecting their own lives, and a window, giving them a peek into someone else's.

I offered up a special prayer, a prayer which came with tears and anguish, that some way would open up for me to use what talents I possessed for my fellow workers, for the poor.

Increasing your repertoire has the advantage that you don't have to give up enjoying what you already like: it is always easier to add new behaviors than to deny your deepest desires.

If God has given you a message, go and give it to the people as God has given it to you. It is a stupid thing to try to be eloquent.

Irish people give big hellos and very little goodbyes. Unless they're female, and then they spend five hours talking in the doorway to the person that's leaving their house.

Forgive me for noting that conservatives seem to believe that the rich will work harder if we give them more, and the poor will work harder if we give them less.

Abundant living means abundant giving.

To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

The thing that gives you power also traps you.

Now little kids come to my front door and give me cookies. You see that smile on their face, they're looking at me the same way I used to look at Hulk Hogan and Bret Hart, and that's pretty cool.

I assure you that even the most beautiful women are not pretty all over. They have merely learned to use clothes deftly enough to give others the impression that they are.

Practice in life whatever you pray for and God will give it to you more abundantly.

Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. For what keeps our interest in life and makes us look forward to tomorrow is giving pleasure to other people.

Who you spend your life with-much more so than how you choose to spend it-is the most important decision you can make. Do it right. That's the best advice I can give you.

I give money to Unicef because I like the 'bang for your buck' aspect. Here's $10, go and save 1,000 kids from blindness!

To truly try is to give all you have, when you have nothing left.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

I don't know why no one ever thought to paste a label on the toilet-tissue spindle giving 1-2-3 directions for replacing the tissue on it. Then everyone in the house would know what Mama knows.

Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.

There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.

I learned early that you only have so much energy to give. You have to spend it correctly.

Remembering the past gives power to the present.

[On disagreeing with her husband about his slave-holding:] I cannot give my conscience into the keeping of another human being or submit the actions dictated by my conscience to their will.

If we follow the traditional way of thought, there will always be traditional enemies. Extremist circles from both sides will find causes to give rise to problems.

When it's all said & done only God can judge me. I'm going to go out there on 5/5 to give my fans what they want to see.

Only the Holy Spirit can give you the power to not think about yourself, to set you free from yourself.

The more men you make free, the more freedom is strengthened, and the more men you give an interest in the welfare and safety of the State, the greater is the security of the State.

Being human is a complicated gig. So give that ol' dark night of the soul a hug. Howl the eternal yes!

Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them.

Eternity gives nothing back of what one leaves out of the minutes.

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have.

The truth will set you free: believability will give you credibility.

The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.

When your mother gives you confidence about anything that you do, you carry that confidence with you.She made me believe that I could make someone laugh.

Give me a good script, and I'll be a hundred times better as a director.

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

If somebody had made that [deal] to me when I was a businessman, I would have said he proposed to give me the sleeves from his vest.

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.

Give what you can, take what you need.

Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is like the religious search for God.

Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead.

You just need a little perspective. Warmed chocolate can give you that.

Freedom from clinging gives room in our hearts to grow.

That's one of the privileges of old age - you can give plenty of advice 'cause most folks think that's all you got left anyway.

Really, people are not a school of fish. Finding the leaders of the future is a question of recognizing those people who give leadership in a crisis.

What, and give him (the batter) a chance to think on my time.

You can't give up until the finish line, that's something I've learned.

Give up being perfect for being authentic. Be who you are. Love who you are. Others will too.

...the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.