Top 98 Give Something Away Quotes
#1. To get something, you must give something away.
To hold something, you must give something away.
To love something, you must give something away.
David Levithan
#2. Every time you get something, give something away.
Wendie Malick
#3. I think the good thing about the Internet is to give something away and to sell something else. Get a business model like that because the old brick and mortar record stores are falling apart, and the big record companies are collapsing under their own weight.
Roger McGuinn
#4. I don't really talk about my process very much, because I feel like if I give something away, it might not come back.
Meryl Streep
#5. And if I talk to him, I'll say something wrong, give something away. I can feel it coming, a betrayal of myself.
Margaret Atwood
#6. You don't give something away because it's fat. You take it and you look at it.
Chelsea Handler
#7. I don't like to show my emotions at the board, not because they might give something away to an opponent, but because that's my style: I like to keep it to myself.
Vladimir Kramnik
#8. I can usually sense that a leading is from the Holy Spirit when it calls me to humble myself, serve somebody, encourage somebody or give something away. Very rarely will the evil one lead us to do those kinds of things.
Bill Hybels
#9. How do you give something away with the knowledge that you will get it back in three days, and then claim it to be the 'Ultimate Sacrifice'?
Jake Jesser
#10. If you give a good idea to a mediocre team, they will screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a brilliant team, they will either fix it or throw it away and come up with something better.
Ed Catmull
#11. Conner took a deep breath, "Francesca, I am not going to let you to give your first kiss away in a bet. A first kiss should be special." He leaned down whispering in my ear. "When I do kiss you it is going to mean something.
D.C. Gambel
#12. With the way I worked, a client can give me everything they know about something, and then I go away and come back with advertising that knocks them out of their chair. They finally understand what kind of a company they are.
George Lois
#13. You can't expect to make all this money and not go through problems. You can't expect God to give you everything you want without taking something away.
French Montana
#14. Is it or is it not ethical to create an embryo, and to create a person for the purpose of getting an organ to give to someone else? Your knee-jerk reaction is 'absolutely not;' but you need the ethical analysis of that to show why and how that is something that you need to stay away from.
Anthony Fauci
#15. What she'd done was give him a glimpse of something that scared the bejesus out of him, something never meant for men like him that could start a hunger that would eat away what little was left inside him that didn't need to be shoved into the dark place.
Ellen O'Connell
#16. If you own something you cannot give away, then you don't own it, it owns you.
Albert Schweitzer
#17. Guys who dress up like Santa Claus, see, and give presents away do it because when they was young they must have did something bad and they feel guilty about it. So now they do something they think is good to make up for it, see?
George Seaton
#18. If I don't wear something for a year, I give it away.
Ryan Seacrest
#19. When I stepped away from the white pine, I had the definite feeling that we had exchanged some form of life energy ... Clearly white pines and I are on the same wavelength. What I give back to the trees I cannot imagine. I hope they receive something, because trees are among my closest friends.
Anne LaBastille
#20. Why should it be illegal to sell something that's perfectly legal to give away?
George Carlin
#21. I think it's hilarious that you would give an endorsement deal to someone who you've heard their lyrics a million times and you thought it was cool. And then they said something a little messed up and you take the endorsement deal away.
Lamorne Morris
#22. I love the quote she once gave me: "When supply seems to have dried up, look around you quickly for something to give away." It is a law of the universe: to get good things you must first give away good things. (And of course this applies to love and friendship, as well.)
Bear Grylls
#23. If you have more money than you need, you have to give it away. It's a duty. I get to choose whom to sponsor, and I like to give to the areas that I know something about.
Gordon Getty
#24. It's way too easy to see the real face of a person. They're amiable and full of pretense when they want something from you, but the minute you don't give in, back away or put yourself first (like they do) is the minute they show you who they really are.
Donna Lynn Hope
#25. Philosophy cannot and should not give us an account of faith, but should understand itself and know just what it has indeed to offer, without taking anything away, least of all cheating people out of something by making them think it is nothing.
Soren Kierkegaard
#26. I do give a great deal of forethought and zone in on character and all sorts of things like that. Never before have I just stuffed something away in the back cupboard of my brain because it was just such a crazy concept.
Greg Kinnear
#27. Take away a man's actual sense of manhood - which is conventionally based on the ability to work, to earn money, to be self-sufficient, to provide for children - and you've got to give them something else. And they did.
Fran Lebowitz
#28. Our weaknesses may never go away but when we give them to God, His grace will turn them into something beautiful ...
Heather Bixler
#29. Life is what happens when we are busy doing other things. Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you do, something you are and something you give away.
John Lennon
#30. I had a very easy time loving an audience. But when it's one-on-one with somebody, all I wanted to do was run away, because maybe they're going to want something from me I can't give, or they're going to hurt me.
Tim Allen
#31. Men have sacrificed so much for their beliefs. Country. Kings. Queens. Political systems. God. Love . It doesn't seem very noble to simply let something you believe in, someone you love, just walk away. To give up without a fight.
Dan Skinner
#32. Take me someplace where I can feel something - I want to give away my heart. Tell me his name so I can know love when it speaks to me. Give me someone I can write about.
Lang Leav
#33. Women need space and silence. We too quickly give away our energy. There's something about holding that richness.
Natalie Goldberg
#34. The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another ... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.
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Leonard Bernstein
#35. Never write about a place until you're away from it, because it gives you perspective. Immediately after you've seen something you can give a photographic description of it and make it accurate. That's good practice, but it isn't creative writing.
Ernest Hemingway,
#36. Nowadays, people in the entertainment industry can have a louder voice than politicians, and I think it's important that they use that voice to say something positive or to give a voice to somebody that's had theirs taken away.
Serinda Swan
#37. We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don't matter. And in the act of taking that idea to ourselves we give everything away to somebody else, to something else.
Terence McKenna
#38. I'm not letting you give me a dinosaur and run away! Dinosaurs fucking meant something.
Lisa Henry
#39. My father used to say, 'You can spend a lot of time making money. The tough time comes when you have to give it away properly.' How to give something back, that's the tough part in life.
Lee Iacocca
#41. Whenever you do something that is in a continuous take, and something that we're not used to doing, because it was all in the details of if you don't make one move seem natural, it can give away all of it.
Steve Buscemi
#42. I keep drinking the ink from my pen and i'm balancing history books up on my head but it all boils down to one quotable phrase if you love something give it away
Conor Oberst
#43. Anyone can give away something expensive, but only those who understand sacrifice can give away something valuable.
Kris Vallotton
#44. Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
Donald Trump
#45. You know you love something if you're willing to die for it, and you know it means nothing if you walk away from that which is dying.
Anthony Liccione
#46. I give away something up to $500 million a year throughout the world promoting Open Society. My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It's their work that I'm supporting. So it's not me doing it.
George Soros
#47. Love is something, if you give it away, you end up having more.
Malvina Reynolds
#48. What is it? A prize or something?
No. It's not a prize and I'm not a prize. But it's mine. It belongs to me and I can only give it away once, and I want to be so sure when it happens. I don't want to say that the first time for me was bad or it didn't mean a thing.
Melina Marchetta
#49. I know that I am going away on my own account. I must make the usual effort. I must have something to show for myself. To take what you would give me, I should have to be either a very large man or a very small one, and I am only in the middle class.
Willa Cather
#50. You give your power away when you make someone or something outside of you more important than what is inside of you.
Alan Cohen
#51. Let him that desires to see others happy, make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed, and remember that every moment of delay takes away something from the value of his benefaction.
Samuel Johnson
#52. And as a Christian, I got something the world didn't give me, the world can't take away, so I find joy that can never be reduced to anything.
Cornel West
#53. I photograph only something that has to do with me, and I never did anything that I did not want to do. I do not do editorial and I never do advertising. No, my freedom is something I do not give away easily.
Josef Koudelka
#54. We want our government to protect us, to make sure something like 9/11 never happens again. We quickly moved to give law enforcement more power to do this. But that now begs the question, did we move to fast? Did we give too much power away? I don't have the answer.
Michael Connelly
#55. You never really own something until you're able to give it away.
Bill Nichols
#56. I deserve it all because I'm willing to give it all. I would have
worked through the darkness with you, Rule. What I won't do is watch you walk
away from me every time something happens that has the potential to hurt you
Jay Crownover
#57. Love is something difficult and it is more difficult than other things because in other conflicts nature herself enjoins men to collect themselves, to take themselves firmly in the hand with all their strength, while in the heightening of love the impulse is to give oneself wholly away.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#58. If you give a good idea to a mediocre group, they'll screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a good group, they'll fix it. Or they'll throw it away and come up with something else.
Edwin Catmull
#59. Go out and do something for somebody. Go out and give something to somebody. It will take you away from yourself and make you happy.
Joseph Jefferson
#60. I certainly believe that creativity must be an experience. If I'm to steal time away from people, we should give them something to react to.
Nicolas Winding Refn
#61. Take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again.
Thomas More
#62. Freedom is something that you give yourself and no one else can ever take away.
Angela Bushman
#63. There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation! ... A human being, Hastings, cannot resist theopportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away.
Agatha Christie
#64. Conditioning was something I always shied away from, now I've learnt that training never stops.
Mark Donnelly
#65. It made him wonder which pain was greater: to give up something precious, or to see it taken away.
Marie Rutkoski
#66. I don't understand why prostitution is illegal, Selling is legal, f***ing is legal. So why isn't it legal to sell f***ing? Why should it be illegal to sell something that's legal to give away?
George Carlin
#67. If something doesn't work exactly right, or maybe needs some special treatment, you don't just throw it away. Everything can't be fully operational all the time. Sometimes, we need to have the patience to give something the little nudge it needs.
Sarah Dessen
#68. Peace is not something you wish for, it is something you make, something you are, something you do,and something you give away.
Robert Fulghum
#69. My heart was saying, "Lord, take away this longing, or give me that for which I long." The Lord was answering, "I must teach you to long for something better.
Elisabeth Elliot
#70. If you possess something but you can't give it away, then you don't possess it ... it possesses you.
Frank Sinatra
#71. Remember what Mommy said about what to do when something scares you?" "Name it," she whispered. "Exactly." Her mother's smile softened. "If you give the monster a name, it takes away its power, because we're really just afraid of what we don't know. If
J.M. Darhower
#72. I don't think you should give away your name and face to something you don't believe 100-percent in.
Claudia Schiffer
#73. Every day, I have something that is so full of nutrition and so full of foods that give you life, rather than take them away, that it makes me feel amazing and really good inside. It balances my blood sugar, balances out all of the things that I need, the nutrition that I need to get into my body.
Vani Hari
#74. Maybe the word forgive points in the wrong direction, since it's something you mostly give yourself, not anyone else: you put down the ugly weight of old suffering, untie yourself from the awful, and walk away from it.
Rebecca Solnit
#75. Money is not the only commodity that is fun to give. We can give time, we can give our expertise, we can give our love or simply give a smile. What does that cost? The point is, none of us can ever run out of something worthwhile to give.
Steve Goodier
#76. Many writers are afraid of writing something bad, so they don't try or give up when their efforts don't lead to a masterpiece right away. If you work at it, you will improve.
Lauren Tarshis
#77. Don't give your power away to anybody. If you find something to do that you truly love, you'll be successful.
Rachel Roy
#78. Your health is not something you biologically lose as you age. It is something you build or give away a little each day, in what you do, and what you don't do.
Jayson Calton
#79. Driving will never be away from me - I can't just give it up. It's all I've ever done, and there's something about being in that car.
Jimmie Johnson
#80. Whenever I perform I try to connect with the crowd and give off energy so when they walk away from the show its remarkable and its something they talk about it, like 'damn I cant wait to come back to my show.'
G-Eazy
#81. If I need something you can't give, I need to walk away, because sooner or later, all I'll see is what you can't give. I won't be able to see what you can.
Michelle Sagara West
#82. But by taking the time away, getting myself off the treadmill, and just slowing down and learning, I felt I had so much more to give back. And maybe that was something that needed to happen for all of us.
Lindsey Buckingham
#83. If you want to fill your life with abundance, never forget to give away something with love.
Debasish Mridha
#84. A gift involves sacrifice. If you give away something that you no longer value or want, it cannot be a gift. It is simply a discarded item.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#85. To give a dopamine kick and create desire, offer a reward. To give a norepinephrine kick and create tension, take something away.
Oren Klaff
#86. You can only do three things with your money. You can spend it. You can invest it. Or you can give it away. And if you invest it, you're really just getting more money to give away or buy something. How many things can you buy? So I don't really think there's a lot of choices.
David Rubenstein
#87. I have great sympathy for people that are infertile, but a life is not something you can give away.
Mary Beth Whitehead
#88. Don't try to be something you're not. If you're goofy, be goofy if you're serious be serious. And no matter what, give everything you have and enjoy it while you can because it can all be taken away from you at any given moment.
Derek Holland
#89. The celebrity thing's completely crazy. I think I just have to move away or give it up altogether. I couldn't have kids in the situation I'm in now. But I could just do something else. That's probably what's going to happen. I made a decision very recently that I want a life instead.
Keira Knightley
#90. I think what I like best is that when people give talks or workshops, it doesn't really matter what level you are as a writer - whether you are a beginner, or you've been around the block a bit; there's something that you can take away from every session.
Antonya Nelson
#91. The state can't give you freedom, and the state can't take it away. You're
born with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is something you
assume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree to
which you resist is the degree to which you are free ...
Utah Phillips
#92. Shouldn't someone give a pep talk or something?" Minho asked, pulling Thomas's attention away from Alby.
"Go ahead," Newt replied.
Minho nodded and faced the crowd. "Be careful," he said dryly. "Don't die.
James Dashner
#93. My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days to compose something that will afterwards give no pleasure.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#94. It was different to give something up than to see it taken away. The difference, Kestrel said, was choice.
Marie Rutkoski
#95. Never give up if you really want something, keep plugging away at it and your dreams can come true.
Robin Leach
#96. To be a Christian is to live dangerously, honestly, freely - to step in the name of love as if you may land on nothing, yet to keep on stepping because the something that sustains you no empire can give you and no empire can take away.
Cornel West
#97. I like Kindness it's something the Government can't tax and it's free to give away that will return to you some day
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#98. Each time you give in like that, each time you back away from something you believe in, a piece of you dies that can never be brought back to life. Don't let anyone tell you not to care. It all matters. Everything.
Christopher Herz
