On Giving Quotes

If you have a problem, if you have a fire in your house, would you want - don't want your neighbors to give you a hand? That's what we have.

For young people, it doesn't matter so much, but when you're older, less is definitely more - too much make-up can give you the 'eccentric Aunt Sally' look!

Nobody gets to pick what life gives them

Forgiving's a choice you make—a gift you give to somebody even if they don't deserve it. It costs nothing, but it makes you feel rich for giving it away.

When you think about it, giving up your real personality is a small price to pay for the richness of living happily ever after with an actual man!

You never want to give a man a present when he's feeling good. You want to do it when he's down.

He that in the latter part of his life too strictly inquires what he has done, can very seldom receive from his own heart such an account as will give him satisfaction.

If there is one word that describes our form of society in America, it may be the word-voluntary.

Nonfiction gives you subjects. Writing fiction I can have more fun, but I have to invent my subject.

I do needlepoint from kits. I give them as gifts to people in the form of cushion covers and they are often speechless with horror.

I will give you the treasures of darkness, riches stored in secret places … In the most unlikely places I will bless your efforts and reward your perseverance with small indications of your victory.

Try to take your vision and ego as far away from the song as possible. Give as much respect as you can to the song and the initial inspiration.

Only as we give the children the truth about life can we expect any improvement in it.

[ If I wasn't making music ] I'd probably end up going to school, I never went to school. Or just give up and get my plumber's ticket and move back to Edmonton and become an alcoholic.

I just want to give the people 100% of myself as an artist.

The shame that comes to us as we see ourselves praised when we are unworthy of it often gives us the occasion to accomplish things that we might never have achieved without such undeserved praise.

If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down.

If she could give love to IT perhaps it would shrivel up and die, for she was sure that IT could not withstand love.

What can we give a child when there is nothing left?

There's nothing you could really avoid about giving yourself to somebody who ultimately rejects you. That's just life.

I know where beauty lives, I've seen it once, I know the warmth she gives.

I don't give a damn if I go to hell.

Hand fits giving, so do it, that's what the Gospel said to me. Life fits living, so let your judgments go.

You do have to continue, as you grow as a human, checking in and going is this what I want? Am I giving away things that I don’t want? Who am I and what do I want to keep doing?

Money doesn't make you happy, but it gives a zone of comfort around you.

Don't give me that look. I'm not trying to find out who you are. I don't care who you are. I just want to know why it is you are the way you are.

I'm bored. I need to be entertained. Sam is moping. I may kill him with his own guitar. It would give me something to do and also make him say something. Two birds with one stone!

I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.

Folded in my arms you're a butterfly in reverse you're giving up your wings and inheriting my curse you're letting go of me you're letting go

I can't tell the difference," I said. "Between not fighting and giving up.

World of words lost on the living / I take my place with the walking dead / Robbed of my voice I'm always giving / Thousands of words to this nameless dread.

You made this?' Finn looks at me. 'No, Saint Anthony brought it to me in the night. He was very put out I didn't give it to you right then.

One of the biggest gifts that you can give your daughter is to show her that you love what you do.

A satyagrahi lays down his life, but never gives up. That is the meaning of the 'do or die' slogan.

The greatest help you can give me is to banish fear from your hearts.

To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.

No police officer could compel a satyagrahi to give evidence against a person who has confessed to him. A satyagrahi would never be guilty of a betrayal of trust.

When a man gives way to anger, he only harms himself.

A man can give up a right, but he may not give up a duty without being guilty of a grave dereliction.

Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective.

If it is possible for the human tongue to give the fullest description of God, I have come to the conclusion that God is Truth.

If we could all give our own definitions of God, there would be as many definitions as there are men and women.

I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life because He alone gives it . . .

If God gives me the privilege of dying for the Hinduism of my conception, I shall have sufficiently died for the unity of all and even for Swaraj.

If I know Hinduism at all, it is essentially inclusive and ever-growing, ever-responsive. It gives the freest scope for imagination, speculation and reason.

True knowledge gives a moral standing and moral strength.

He who gives up action falls. He who gives up the reward rises. But renunciation of fruit in no way means indifference to the result.

Cent percent swadeshi gives sufficient scope for the most insatiable ambition for service and a satisfaction of every kind of talent.

Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies.

A free India will throw all her weight in favour of world disarmament and should herself be prepared to give a lead in this.