Top 100 Giving Away Quotes
#1. 'Social engineering,' the fancy term for tricking you into giving away your digital secrets, is at least as great a threat as spooky technology.
Barton Gellman
#3. I think most Americans believe that although it's better not to use military force if you can avoid it, that the world simply doesn't provide us the luxury of giving away military force as an important tool of foreign policy.
Robert Kagan
#4. Assuming is a form of giving away your power to another regarding an outcome that concerns you.
Molly Friedenfeld
#5. The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him
Voltaire
#6. Patch's eyes were black orbs. Taking in everything and giving away nothing.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#7. I am not satisfied with the love that I am giving away because I am always hungry to give away more.
Debasish Mridha
#8. I turned down a movie this summer because it was nine weeks in Vancouver and my oldest daughter is 14. I've got four more summers with her. I'm not giving away nine weeks of her summer to go do a silly movie.
Jeff Foxworthy
#9. The value of life depends on the amount of pure love that you are giving away.
Debasish Mridha
#10. If you focus on the actions of others and allow them to constantly upset you, then you are handing your peace over to them and giving away your power.
Victoria Osteen
#11. I'd be capable of doing almost anything, even leaving the woman I was living with, but I drew the line, of course, at giving away my books.
Paulo Coelho
#12. So if you're black or brown, you can make money in America, you can get rich in America ... but whatever you decide to do, it better be positive, 'cause if one person is harmed, you will be destroyed. You see Oprah, she just be giving away money. She's doing that to keep the Feds off her back.
Chris Rock
#13. Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar
Oscar Wilde
#14. I'm going to give away a lot more than half my money. I'd be happy to give that to the government if the government put together programs that were like I'm giving away to charity, in which I believe the money is effectively used to help people.
Ray Dalio
#15. I wouldn't be able to write a song like 'Someone Like You' and get someone else to sing it because it's so personal. It's like giving away your heart.
Adele
#16. By giving away food we get more strength. By bestowing clothing on others we gain more beauty. By donating abodes of purity and truth we acquire great treasures.
Gautama Buddha
#17. I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.
Kate Chopin
#18. I'm not not going to stop giving away what I feel about something.
Tori Amos
#19. I'm giving away 2 percent of my net income every month. I don't think Bill Gates is doing that.
Husnu Ozyegin
#20. Measure your day not by the money you're earning but by the unconditional love that you're giving away.
Debasish Mridha
#21. More effective than giving away half my fortune before I die is finding a way to help people have a good-paying job.
William E. Conway Jr.
#22. It's Not sacrifice if it's someone else's life you're giving away, it's just evil.
Veronica Roth
#24. Judges, as a class, display, in the matter of arranging alimony, that reckless generosity which is found only in men who are giving away someone else's cash.
P.G. Wodehouse
#25. I got in the habit of giving away a book as soon as I've finished it because I lived in a housing co-op at Cambridge and had no space to keep books.
Emma Donoghue
#26. Someone probably a lot smarter than me said hell is other people. I say you're in hell when you don't give to someone who needs, because you can't bear to have less. What you are giving away then is your own soul.
Joe Hill
#27. The ones who complain and talk the most about giving away Medicine Secrets, are always those who know the least.
Frank Fools Crow
#28. The idea that the Lord had given us a present, that the world is a gift from God ... well, the amount of stuff, back then, that the Lord was giving away was limited. We do not have dominion.
David Attenborough
#29. And I don't think I'm giving away any secrets here, but there are a lot of terrible scripts in this town.
Frank Darabont
#30. A true lady never lets someone know when he's riled her; otherwise she's giving away her power and her crown.
Carolyn Brown
#31. The commander must establish personal and comradely contact with his men, but without giving away one inch of authority.
Erwin Rommel
#32. I'm giving away my family's story. Who owns the family's story? I don't. But you could turn it around and ask, 'Who is to deny me to write my family's story?' I have hurt people, but I don't think in a dangerous way. But you can't tell.
Karl Ove Knausgaard
#33. Earthly possessions are transient and ephemeral. Giving away love creates ripples that last for some time.
Debasish Mridha
#34. You don't want to be giving away free-kicks in the penalty area ...
Ron Atkinson
#35. I think the tradition of philanthropy is far better developed in the U.S. than in India, as is the whole notion of giving away 50% of your wealth while you are still living and not waiting till you're gone.
Romesh Wadhwani
#36. I say you're in hell when you don't give to someone who needs, because you can't bear to have less. What you are giving away then is your own soul. You have to care for each other or you walk on cinders, a matchstick ready to be struck.
Joe Hill
#37. Generous people can become more generous as they become richer, giving away vast fortunes to worthwhile causes as Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are doing.
Robert Kiyosaki
#38. I have committed to giving away 80% of my wealth, much of it in India, but also in other countries.
Romesh Wadhwani
#39. True abundance is about giving away your life, about letting go and giving up.
Jeff Goins
#40. A friend told me about a Nike competition, where they give you one minute to do tricks with a basketball. I wasn't going to go, but they were giving away free sneakers. I ended up coming in second place.
Ramon Rodriguez
#41. 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?'
Mae Whitman
#42. Once handed the money, Paulson abandoned his promised strategy and instead essentially began giving away billions of dollars to Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and a few others unnaturally selected for survival.
Michael Lewis
#43. As Duke Ellington put it, Henderson "was liberal in giving away his ideas to people. So liberal, in fact, that it is difficult to recognize the original Fletcher Henderson through his flock of imitators."3
Jeffrey Magee
#44. When you succumb to obedience, in an erotic sense, you are not giving away a part of yourself, but seeking something new, something other, within yourself.
Chloe Thurlow
#45. Book four is tentatively titled 'The Skull Throne ,' and book five is 'The Core .' It's kind of hard to talk much about them without giving away things from 'Daylight War,' however.
Peter V. Brett
#46. It was about her. I wanted the man who treated her how she deserved to be treated to be given the honor of giving away her daughter. In
Colleen Hoover
#47. The only topic you could not get Andre' to budge on was whether or not wrestling was fake or rehearsed in any way. I don't know if in Andre's case it was real, considering all the severe punishment he experienced, or whether he believed in the wrestler's code of never giving away trade secrets.
Cary Elwes
#48. He's not yet realized that by giving away nothing but barefaced lies he's come to wither and rot inside. But she's still looking for him into the void of his cold heart.
Llarjme
#49. There was no denying Lisa always looked great. She was like one of those houses the hospital lotteries were always giving away, made up so perfectly you couldn't help but want it. Jayne on the other hand...well, Jayne wasn't anything like a shiny new house.
She was home.
Laura Drewry
#50. We argue that the role of teachers is becoming less that of a knowledge transmitter, and closer to that of an "animator of collective intelligence" who provides analytical tools (the proverbial "fishing rod") rather than simply giving away raw information ("fish").
Marcos C. Lima
#51. People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.
Oscar Wilde
#52. When you allow a person's words to upset you, you're giving away your power.
Phillip C. McGraw
#54. We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread.
Viktor E. Frankl
#56. When you REACT you are giving away your power. When you RESPOND you are staying in control of yourself.
Bob Proctor
#57. I had a blog where I tried to be transparent while giving away nothing. I tweeted and Facebooked badly. As a writer, your 'voice' is your calling card, yet my voice was becoming indistinguishable from billions of other voices.
Ellen Potter
#58. He gives me good advice." Lord Henry smiled. "People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity." "Oh,
Oscar Wilde
#59. [R]eal charity doesn't mean giving away someone else's money.
Doug Bandow
#60. I really hope that the philanthropy movement is seen not just as wealthy people giving money away but wealthy people giving away their time, their energy and their ideas.
David Rubenstein
#61. Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.
Ellen Barkin
#62. We are giving away the country so a few very rich people can get richer.
Virgil Goode
#63. The only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. Our charities should pinch and hamper us. If we live at the same level of affluence as other people who have our level of income, we are probably giving away too little.
C.S. Lewis
#64. You will not be poor for giving away love. But you will be a poor soul if you don't give away love.
Debasish Mridha
#65. Once we understood that we were giving away God's money to do God's work, we discovered a peace and joy we never had back when we thought it was our money!
Randy Alcorn
#66. Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.
Scott McNealy
#67. When we do for others, we can't help but be touched by the love and generosity we thought we were giving away.
Kimberly Kirberger
#68. Momma always said that a true lady never lets someone know when he's riled her; otherwise, she's giving away her power and her crown. My
Carolyn Brown
#69. You can begin to generate millions of dollars by simply giving away information.
Anik Singal
#70. When you give away a little piece of your heart, you're giving away the only thing you can give away, which, after you do, you got more left than you had before you gave some of it away.
Don Hutson
#71. We have to end the capitalist system. We have to make love our value. You are rich when you love and you are rich when you are giving away your time and what you have to help other people.
Patch Adams
#72. You sell your happiness for peanuts! You sell your smile for pennies! I tell you, it's not worth it. The entire world is not worth your smile. Even if you are made the king or the emperor of the world, it's not worth giving away your smile.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#73. When you look at Regis, he really and truly does feel for those people, and I feel like I've done it too. You're giving away somebody else's money so what do you care? It's not your money.
Wink Martindale
#74. Why is it that so many people think that charity consists in giving away merely what they cannot use instead of the article the recipient needs?
Mabel Osgood Wright
#75. Perhaps one of the more creative promotions of all time was
in 1969, when a marketer with the Procter & Gamble Company
came up with the idea of giving away goldfish with each purchase
of a king-size box of Spic and Span.
Mary Potter Kenyon
#76. When I first started on Twitter, a relative asked, 'Aren't you concerned with giving away your jokes?' I don't think of it that way. That's my content, and that's what I do.
Julie Klausner
#77. If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.
Bell Hooks
#78. He gives me good advice ... People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves.
Oscar Wilde
#79. Dr. Barlow, it is, of course, customary to check with the caption before, uh, giving away his ship.
-Deryn Sharp
Scott Westerfeld
#80. By giving away we feel rich; by hoarding we feel poor.
Debasish Mridha
#81. In my industry, everybody wants to know everything about you, and it's just dumb. I think the only way of maintaining some of that mystique is by not giving away too much about yourself. It has served me well so far. I never want to feel up for grabs.
Miranda Richardson
#82. On social networking sites, we may expose ourselves, but we choose to do so. We are in control and, often wrongly, we do not feel we are giving away tradable data.
Julian Baggini
#83. Life is like Bed of Roses... Start giving away the Roses to make others happy and you would know what is left behind in your bed for you...
John Gabriel
#84. Its difficult to dislike a man who takes pleasure in giving away free beer.
Kevin Hearne
#85. If you can't get what you want from life, see if you're withholding something from someone else, because you won't get what you want unless you start giving away what you have to those that need it. Selfishness is incompatible with abundance and going to Church won't help you escape this Divine law.
Robin Sacredfire
#86. But, in making the sacrifices that the Government asks us to make, we are not protecting our freedom. We are giving away our freedom in exchange for a false sense of security.
Kenneth Eade
#87. When someone attempts to insult you know that they are inadvertently giving away what would insult them.
Donna Lynn Hope
#88. If you don't value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents- start charging for it.
Kim Garst
#89. Take up giving-away as a hobby while you are young, and you will have a happy life. What is more, because you do so many thoughtful things on impulse, you will develop a lively and interesting personality- gracious, friendly, and likeable.
David Dunn
#90. But now I feel off the grid. I feel that I am not part of the culture. And because I don't have a car I don't really go anywhere to buy things. In fact, I have been in a slow process of selling and giving away everything I own.
Vincent Kartheiser
#91. If you start to give of yourself, be it ever so simple a fashion, the world will observe your spirit and show you many needs that you can supply. There are a hundred ways of giving away little margins of time you will never miss, which could be riches to someone.
David Dunn
#92. A heart filled with love never dries out by giving away love. It is like the ocean with unending waves.
Debasish Mridha
#93. By giving away with kindness, you get it back with greatness.
Debasish Mridha
#94. I made promises to yesterday. I can't start giving away my tomorrows." ~ Lily
Stylo Fantome
#96. Or perhaps Zeus was just messing with me again - giving me a taste of my old power before yanking it away once more. Remember this, kid? WELL YOU CAN'T HAVE IT!
Rick Riordan
#97. Because there is liberating power in each and every truth, the one who walks in the truth in all his ways will be set free. A lie, no matter how "little," gives the powers of darkness an opening for attack, but the truth chases them far away.
Johan Oscar Smith
#98. After you read the script, then you actually just have to be in the moment you're in, in order to make it believable. You can't give it away. You can't tip it off. For me, it's always about being truthful in the moment I'm in. Hopefully, being able to reveal what I'm feeling, you have to believe it.
Victor Garber
#99. You are Englishmen; mind your privileges, give not away your right.
William Penn
#100. After meditation, it is a good idea to bow and offer your meditation to god, to that stillness and perfection that is existence. Feel that you are giving your meditation away.
Frederick Lenz
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
