Top 100 Give Not Quotes
#1. You are Englishmen; mind your privileges, give not away your right.
William Penn
#2. Visitors at the zoo indulge in transports of delight at the way an elephant reaches for an apple with it's trunk....but give not a moments thought to the ineffable capabilities of their own hands.
John Russell Napier
#3. Christ, he was empty, just a shell of himself. He had nothing to give, not even his seed.
Charlotte Featherstone
#4. Pain's nothing. Pain's what you give, not what you get.
Colum McCann
#5. Set up rules for when you will "give" not lend money. Never lend. My people know that I'll help with college. I'll help if they lose they job thu no fault of their own.
Michelle Singletary
#6. A relationship is what you can give, not what you can get.
Dennis Roberts
#7. Those who give not till they die show that they would not then if they could keep it any longer.
Joseph Hall
#8. When you love someone, you become immune to the hurt they cause you. You don't love hoping to get something in return, you love because you have to. In its extreme form, it is a need to give, not a need to get.
Faraaz Kazi
#9. Growing up is when you understand you get what you give, not what you're given.
Guy Browning
#10. To some people you may give not your hand, but only a slap with a paw: and I would at your paw might also have claws.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#11. There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#12. Give not advice without being asked, and when desired, do it briefly.
George Washington
#13. The hardest learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.
Mignon McLaughlin
#14. Do not expect too much from the world. We are here to give not to take.
Radhe Maa
#15. Believer, here is encouragement. Art thou praying for some beloved one? Oh, give not up thy prayers, for Christ is "mighty to save." You are powerless to reclaim the rebel, but your Lord is Almighty.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#16. a favourite couplet of Dunbar's sums up his view of the whole duty and delight of Man:
Man, please thy Maker and be merry
And give not for this world a cherry.
Jocelyn Gibb
#17. When incomes and bonuses decrease, revenues falter, and businesses stumble, it's more important than ever to give - not necessarily more, but in a way that matters more. When incomes are down and wallets are stretched, the effectiveness of our giving is what really counts.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
#19. You must long for God more than normal. You must be willing to live to give, not live to gain.
Craig Groeschel
#21. Some people are gift givers by nature. They love their tribe, or they respect their art, and so they give. Not for an ulterior motive, but because it gives them joy.
Seth Godin
#22. Wherever ... thou shalt be, pray secretly within thyself. If thou shalt be far from a house of prayer, give not thyself trouble to seek for one, for thou thyself art a sanctuary designed for prayer. If thou shalt be in bed, or in any other place, pray there; thy temple is there.
Bernard Of Clairvaux
#23. For what I give, not what I take,
For battle, not for victory,
My prayer of thanks I make.
Odell Shepard
#24. Give. Give generously, abundantly, and sacrificially. Give not because your stuff is bad. Give because your heart has been captured by a Savior who has produced in you overflowing joy, welling up in rich generosity.
David Platt
#25. To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm; sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#26. WE MUST GIVE NOT ONLY WHAT WE HAVE; WE MUST ALSO GIVE WHAT WE ARE.
Anonymous
#27. Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. 2 Corinthians 9:7
Suzanne Crocker
#28. It is praiseworthy when you give not only to your power but beyond your power.
T. B. Joshua
#29. You're learning to be nourished by the love you give, not by the validation offered in response to your giving.
Matthew Kahn
#30. Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
Elizabeth Hardwick
#31. Cities give not the human senses room enough. We go out daily and nightly to feed the eyes on the horizon, and require so much scope, just as we need water for our bath.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#32. Surely I could give him
a sort of contentment ...
That isn't enough to give. Not for the giver.
Dodie Smith
#33. Love? You have no understanding that to love is to give, not to take.
Ted Dekker
#34. Love is the desire to give, not to receive, something. Love is the art of producing something with the other's talents.
Bertolt Brecht
#35. Give not S. Peter so much, to leave Saint Paul nothing.
[Give not Saint Peter so much, to leave Saint Paul nothing.]
George Herbert
#36. Think Give. Not Get. Nothing has the power to positively change your world more.
Shawn Anderson
#37. Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee, as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.
Herman Melville
#38. Act, not for results, just for action.
Give, not for appreciation, just to help.
Be kind, not for something in return, just to love.
Debasish Mridha
#39. Children who have faith have distinctly different characteristics from those who don't. In fact, one of the main manifestations of a person with strong faith is the ability to give - not just in terms of money or possessions, but also time, love, and encouragement.
Stormie O'martian
#40. It is important to give, not only to those closer to us, also to our enemies.
Sunday Adelaja
#41. Love is a consistent passion to give, not a meek persistent hope to receive. The only demand of life is the privilege to love all.
Chinmayananda Saraswati
#42. Give not reins to your inflamed passions; take time and a little delay; impetuosity manages all things badly.
[Lat., Ne frena animo permitte calenti;
Da spatium, tenuemque moram; male cuncta ministrat
Impetus.]
Statius
#43. When people see the conventions, they think they're going to get the straightforward genre - I don't give them that and they get mad. People see that and they think I don't understand the conventions because I'm not a good filmmaker.
Mary Harron
#44. I can say this: don't give up. Not on love but, more important still, not on you. Never let yourself believe that you are unlovable or flawed in any way. You deserve to be loved. You deserve kind words and an unwavering eye.
Menna Van Praag
#45. Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by the simplest of such injunctions.
Gloria Swanson
#46. There is less alms-giving in America than in any other Christian country on the face of the globe. It is not in the temper of the people either to give or to receive.
Frances Trollope
#47. Klaus had not told his siblings about the book, because he didn't want to give them false hope.
Lemony Snicket
#48. Would it not be well this Christmas to give first to the Lord, directly through obedience, sacrifice, and love, and then to give to him indirectly through gifts to friends and those in need as well as to our own? Should we do this, perhaps many of us would discover a new Christmas joy.
John Andreas Widtsoe
#49. I have no heart?
Perhaps I have not;
But then you're mad to take offence
That I don't give you what I have not got:
Use your own common sense.
Christina Rossetti
#50. It is not the purpose of a juryman's office to give justice as a favor to whoever seems good to him, but to judge according to law, and this he has sworn to do.
Socrates
#51. To be happy with myself and always make others happy. To be confident and give others confidence in themselves. To smile, to surf, to laugh and make others laugh. To read more widely. To try to be more tolerant of my weaknesses and of others, and not to be so hard on myself all the time.
Chrissie Wellington
#52. You think that because I want to do what's right, because I want to make things better, I'm weak," Claire said. "Or that I'm stupid. But I'm not. It takes a lot more strength to know how bad the world is and not want to be part of that, give in to it. And I do know, Kim. Believe me.
Rachel Caine
#53. When Marvel approached me about possibly bringing back a She-Hulk solo series, a few touchstones for a take immediately popped into my head - make her an attorney. Make her charming and fun, not weighed down by the various things life will throw at her. Give her a vibrant social life.
Charles Soule
#54. Music bypasses the conceptual mind. Music does not give you food for thought ...
Eckhart Tolle
#55. Let us always remember that he does not really believe his own opinion, who dares not give free scope to his opponent.
Wendell Phillips
#56. You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.
Prince Charles
#57. I want my spirituality to rid me of hate, not give me reason for it.
Donald Miller
#58. We do not like our friends the worse because they sometimes give us an opportunity to rail at them heartily. Their faults reconcile us to their virtues.
William Hazlitt
#59. I thought I could make a sarcastic joke about it. But it's based on my own struggle with how much to give, how much it's really helping or not, and how foolish or not I feel. Giving sometimes backfires ...
Nicole Holofcener
#60. I invent a reason for the Hertz attendant to start the rental car.
I am seventy-five years old: this is not the reason I give.
Joan Didion
#61. My job in the Senate is not just to give speeches and do interviews, it's to solve problems.
Marco Rubio
#62. We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That's just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations.
Mae Jemison
#63. To do justice to a lifelong dream of being a writer, I must give it the intense concentration and focus I gave to track. To do both with excellence is not possible. It is with a sense of sadness and joyous anticipation that I leave track and move on.
Florence Griffith Joyner
#64. The challenging part of parenting is to stick to your ideals and not give in.
Gretchen Carlson
#65. Even when other powers have been lost and people may not even be able to understand language, they will nearly always recognize and respond to familiar tunes. And not only that. The tunes may carry them back and may give them memory of scenes and emotions otherwise unavailable for them.
Oliver Sacks
#66. What good's a black face if it means I'm just someone else's property? Why give me these arms and legs just to carry someone else's load, not my own?
Stacey Lee
#67. I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.
Elizabeth Kenny
#68. To acknowledge, to accept, and to forgive one's parents - both what they gave and what they did not give, both one's dependence upon them and one's independence of them - is the ultimate hallmark of maturity: a perception as valid for institutions as for individuals.
Ernest Kurtz
#69. You give up not meditating. It's called meditation action. There's no way out of it. Meditation means to be constantly extricating yourself from the clinging of mind.
Ram Dass
#70. Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ... and then cackles.
Henry Ward Beecher
#71. You're not the kind of girl a guy wants to be friends with, you're the kind of girl he wants to give his heart to.
Tess Oliver
#72. Repentance will not make you see Christ; but to see Christ will give you repentance.
Charles Spurgeon
#73. Both 'The Daily Show' and 'The Colbert Report,' you're working with the best. When you work with the best, you have to raise your game. If you're working with people who are sub par, you're not forced to give 100 percent because you can get by on 80 percent.
Nate Corddry
#74. I can give you honesty, monogamy, and more passion than you can stand, but not love. That emotion died in me long ago, as I suspect you already know.
Jeaniene Frost
#75. To move the earth like Archimedes, one needs not a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it. There is an easier way: Give a genius a beautiful remote house in a green valley where he can think calmly, and he shall move the earth with ideas!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#76. I want to give myself a ridiculous nickname. Something like "Knuckle Cock," only not so flowery and romantic sounding.
Jarod Kintz
#77. But since he stood for England And knew what England means, Unless you give him bacon You must not give him beans.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#78. One must apply one's reason to everything here, learning to obey, to shut up, to help, to be good, to give in, and I don't know what else. I'm afraid I shall use up all my brains too quickly, and I haven't got so very many. Then I shall not have any left for when the war is over.
Anne Frank
#79. Give the reader what they want, just not the way they expect it.
William Goldman
#80. Don't feel like you have to take every suggestion people give you. Not every good idea is a God idea.
Joyce Meyer
#82. The whole reason people fill their homes with furry carnivores and not with, say, iguanas and turtles, is because mammals offer something no reptile ever will. They give affection, they want affection, and respond to our emotions the way we do to theirs.
Frans De Waal
#83. But to give him anything to drink was impossible, or would have been so had not the landlord bored a reed, and putting one end in his mouth poured the wine into him through the other; all which he bore with patience rather than sever the ribbons of his helmet.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#84. It may be true that there is no God here, but there must be one not far off, and at such a moment one feels His presence; which comes to the same as saying (and I readily give this sincere profession of faith): I believe in God, and that it is His wi
Vincent Van Gogh
#85. Men give up one thing to take up another, but in spite of numerous changes they do not find peace. They are no better than monkeys who let go one bough to take hold of another, only to let it go again.
Gautama Buddha
#86. Rainbows is a pretty honest look at my approach to life and love. While I admit to not exactly being an angel, I do try and live life to the fullest and give as much as I can of myself in the process
Beccy Cole
#87. Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don't give up after a mistake, when something doesn't come easily but we throw ourselves into trying, when we're not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished.
Sharon Salzberg
#88. Fame, do I like it? No. It has bought a lot for me in my career, but there are a lot of downsides to it. You give up your privacy. I did it to myself but not to my family and friends. You don't ask for it. You just have to live with it.
Cara Delevingne
#89. Jack, I know I'm not perfect, but I'm really hoping you're not ready to give up on me yet. I don't have gifts or love letters or anything like you had. But what I can give you is my word, my promise, my vow to you. Which I will back up with actions, by the way.
J. Sterling
#90. This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.
V.S. Naipaul
#91. Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#92. Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
#93. Learn to love yourself for you cannot give to others what you do not possess.
Jeffrey Fry
#94. To give and not expect anything in return, that is what lies at the heart of love.
Rupert Everett
#95. JER29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
Anonymous
#96. It's not a very sane thing to try to be great all the time. You want to make something magical; you want to make something wonderful; you want to give to everybody; you want to heal people; you want to still be inspired. That's not easy.
Lykke Li
#97. And all of this, all these physical aspects of painting at that time excited me very much. You could do a picture in just black and white. I mean all the things, whether you're soliciting permission or not, do give you permission.
Robert Rauschenberg
#98. True greatness is measured by how much freedom you give to others, not by how much you can coerce others to do what you want.
Larry Wall
#99. 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.
Grace Lee Boggs
#100. Do not meet or overtake a patient who is moving about in order to speak to him or to give him any message or letter. You might just as well give him a box on the ear. I have seen a patient fall flat on the ground who was standing when his nurse came into the room.
Florence Nightingale
