Giving Quotes

Long ago I lost the joy in living. The only joy I have is in my giving.

Where there is giving there must be taking.

I've been giving this lecture to first-year classes for over twenty-five years. You'd think they would begin to understand it by now.

When God gives you comforts, it is your great evil not to observe His hand in them.

I'm not a big guy that believes that you gain energy from demonizing other people. I think you gain energy from giving people hope.

The truth of the matter is, we can certainly fight against terrorism and fight terrorist groups around the world without having to give up our own civil liberties. They're not mutually exclusive.

So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse Met ever, and to shameful silence brought, Yet gives not o'er though desperate of success.

Lavish giving and open homes are close to the center of life in Christ.

By the time the civil service has finished drafting a document to give effect to the principle, there may be little of the principle left.

To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.

Hang on to your eccentricities, because they will give you a style.

The cross is not just a badge to identify us...it is also the compass which gives us our bearings in a disoriented world.

There are a lot of people who want to give orders and be bossy that don't deserve respect.

All just order in the world is based on this, that man give man what is his due.

When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it.

Grace is the truth that Jesus came to give us.

God doesn't always give us a blueprint for our lives, but he always gives us a next step.

Fear will try to keep you from taking that first step. Don't give in to fear, do it afraid.

DRS is like giving Picasso Photoshop.

If you look at the world one way, it takes from you - it's a thief of time, energy, creative mojo. But if you look at the world another way, it gives you an endless supply of motivation.

Hope gives us something to do when we are afraid of what might happen.

I have a bunch of headshots that I like to throw at people - with some backups. I give them like three copies just so they don't forget me.

Art...must do something more than give pleasure: it should relate to our own life so as to increase our energy of spirit.

I want fans to give me advice on girls; why do they always say they don’t look good in pictures, even though they look great?

I open myself up every time I walk on screen and give you everything that I am. There are parts of me that are in every movie that I've done. That to me is what my job is.

Love grows by not giving to us. And if our passion for poetry lives on and persists, it is because poetry offers us only its bits of lint.

When it comes to exchanges with people, I think, the more genuine you can be, the more giving you can be, the more you will, in the end, feel fulfilled.

Every objet in the world promises satisfaction, but it never gives satisfaction -it only promises.

We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up or fight like hell.

If you can no longer think about the future, and you once dreamed of everlasting love, don't give up the dream, find it again.

When a woman reaches twenty-six in America, she's on the slide. It's downhill all the way from then on. It doesn't give you a tremendous feeling of confidence and well-being.

One cannot give what he does not possess. To give love you must possess love. To love others you must love yourself.

Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to out deepest longings and greatest accomplishments.

Maybe money is unreal for most of us, easier to give away than things we want.

I want to give back. I want to do all the things that will make me feel fulfilled. But whenever I do those things, people think it's a press stunt or something.

Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.

Give help rather than advice.

You don't know me, but I know about you...I can't make you live longer. I can't stop you from hurting. But I can give you one wish, as someone did for me.

Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature

Does freedom of speech give the right to offend?

Friends--or lovers--are not always available to each other. Inner turmoils can cause us to be unhearing when someone needs us, to need to receive understanding when we should be giving understanding.

I didn't really give a sh** what's going on in the rest of the world. I just didn't. I just wanted to focus on me, me, me, my career, my life, just me - blinders.

We're in the world of creating illusions and giving people the ability to dream and to be inspired or moved.

The privilege of resisting or disobeying a particular law or order accrues only to him who gives willing and unswerving obedience to the laws laid down for him.

In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.

We don't ask God for too much; in fact, we ask for too little. Turn to Him for everything. Give everything to God.

Dear God, I give this time of quiet to You. Please dissolve my thoughts of stress and fear And deliver me to the inner place Where all is peace and love. Amen.

We are all honorable men here, we don 't have to give each other assurances as if we were lawyers.

Our Heavenly Father is far too wise and loves us far too much to give us everything we ask for.

Shall we go on conferring our Civilization upon the peoples that sit in darkness, or shall we give those poor things a rest?