Top 100 Giving It Quotes
#1. I was torturing the fire, giving it life, and snuffing it out.
pg. 33
Jeannette Walls
#2. Life is all about Peace and LOVE
Giving it. Creating it. Living and Becoming it!
Timothy Pina
#3. What is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry?
Ursula K. Le Guin
#4. Each day offers us the gift of being a special occasion if we can simply learn that as well as giving, it is blessed to receive with grace and a grateful heart.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#5. If you get careless or go romanticizing scientific information, giving it a flourish here and there, Nature will soon make a complete fool out of you. It does it often enough anyway even when you don't give it opportunities.
Robert M. Pirsig
#6. Love is not simply giving; it is judicious giving and judicious withholding as well. It is judicious praising and judicious criticizing. It is judicious arguing, struggling, confronting, urging, pushing and pulling in addition to comforting. It is leadership.
M. Scott Peck
#7. The church today is riddled with fad doctrines and new sounds that distract from the clear message of the Great commission in the New Testament. Any message that attracts you which does not bring glory to Christ is the message of a seducing spirit and the man giving it is in deception.
John Hagee
#8. Love's value is not dependent on the person receiving it, but on the person giving it.
Jeffrey Fry
#9. What people fail to understand coughing up sin and confessing it and giving it to the only one that can remove it, for crying out loud, we're all sinners.
Phil Robertson
#10. Taking money from job creating entrepreneurs and giving it to ever-failing government programs has to be the ultimate in economic illiteracy.
James Cook
#11. I stopped waiting for the world to give me what I wanted; I started giving it to myself.
Byron Katie
#12. No matter how avid they themselves may be for praise and appreciation, people are often niggardly in giving it to others, however merited it is.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#13. Love is not getting, but giving. It is sacrifice. And sacrifice is glorious!
Marion Milner
#14. We always had dogs,so I understood all the joy and the love animals are capable of giving. It's crazy to me that some people have dogs in thier homes, but they treat them more like furniture.
Alicia Silverstone
#15. Concerns about the size and role of government are what seem to leave reformers stammering and speechless in town-hall meetings. The right wants to have a debate over fundamental principles; elected Democrats seem incapable of giving it to them.
Thomas Frank
#16. Nature wants us to enjoy life to the full and die without giving it a second thought; Christianity wants the opposite.
Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
#17. it was easier to live without
something you've never had, because you didn't know what you were missing, but once you've had
something it was difficult giving it up.
Cora Reilly
#18. When you fight something, you're tied to it forever. As long as you're fighting it, you're giving it power.
Anthony De Mello
#19. Spandex bodysuits, huh?" His eyes twinkled. "If that's what turns you on - I'm all for giving it a try.
J.C. Reed
#20. The reason that you dance and sing is to make the audience feel like they're dancing and singing. As long as you're having fun with it and giving it 100 percent, they're gonna feel that.
Heath Ledger
#21. Noah had wandered down the aisle, but now he gleefully returned with a snow globe. He stood behind Ronan until he pushed off the shelf to admire the atrocity.
"Glitter," whispered Noah reverentially, giving it a shake.
Maggie Stiefvater
#22. In soap, fatty acids made from boiling pork bone fat are used as a hardening agent, but also for giving it a pearl-like effect.
Christien Meindertsma
#23. The American Dream means giving it your all, trying your hardest, accomplishing something. And then I'd add to that, giving something back. No definition of a successful life can do anything but include serving others.
George H. W. Bush
#24. The poor of the world cannot be made rich by the redistribution of wealth. Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty, taking their money and giving it as a reward to people who have failed to escape.
P. J. O'Rourke
#25. Her mother's quiet disapproval and withdrawal was a death in itself, and Franckline's despair at it was transmitted, she was sure of it, to the child. She transgressed twice, first by making the child, then by giving it her despair, the despair that left it unable to live.
Pamela Erens
#26. She sighed deeply. "I really thought about trying to explain them," she said. "And why I really didn't want to - " He reached across the console and picked up her hand, holding it, giving it a squeeze. He smiled and shook his head at her. It's okay, he mouthed silently. He didn't let go of her hand.
Robyn Carr
#28. What nobody seems to understand is that love can only be one-sided, that no other love exists, that in any other form it is not love. If it involves less than total giving, it is not love. It is impotent; for the moment it is nothing.
Andrei Tarkovsky
#29. I am blessed beyond the realms of blessedness, and easily the greatest pleasure is giving it away
Joanna Lumley
#30. Neither of us realized what was happening. That simply by keeping an eye on each other, without giving it any thought, just by noticing the sound of a certain window sliding open, we were already starting to fall in love.
Banana Yoshimoto
#31. The essence of charity ... was not deciding what others needed and giving it to them, but giving them what they wanted.
Jane Smiley
#32. The difference between human cultures and the civilizations of Highly Evolved Beings is that HEBs actually apply the law of reciprocity in their lives, rather than just giving it lip service.
Neale Donald Walsch
#33. I don't want to wake up and be bored. That's probably my greatest fear is to have nothing to do. What better job is there than to play quarterback for an NFL team, and certainly one that I've been on for a long time and had success with? I don't plan on giving it up any time soon.
Tom Brady
#34. People could connect with me ... I think the appeal was that, "Here he is, he's just a normal guy like us, and he's giving it his all".
B.J. Penn
#35. Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
#36. We have now learned that rashness and imprudence will not be deterred from taking credit; let us try whether fraud and avarice may be more easily restrained from giving it.
Samuel Johnson
#37. Designis a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.
Geoffrey Beene
#38. All you umpires, back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. It's my game. I pitch, I hit, I catch. I run the bases. At sunset, I've won or lost. At sunrise, I'm out again, giving it the old try.
Ray Bradbury
#39. I was out at the HBO party, these are liberals, I imagine, and a lot of people came up to me and said, "Keep giving it to the president."
Bill Maher
#40. And over one more set of hills, along the sea, the last roses have opened their factories of sweetness and are giving it back to the world. If I had another life I would want to spend it all on some unstinting happiness.
Mary Oliver
#41. Your voice is the wildest thing you own," Brooke says to me. "And you're giving it away. You can't see it. Your obsession is blinding you." He is angry. He is talking in shorthand. "You're losing yourself.
Terry Tempest Williams
#42. You do not keep the audience's interest by giving it information, but by withholding information ...
Robert McKee
#43. Homo Sapiens Loses Control Can humans go on running the world and giving it meaning? How do biotechnology and artificial intelligence threaten humanism? Who might inherit humankind, and what new religion might replace humanism?
Yuval Noah Harari
#44. No one can take your soul from you. You have to give it away.
Here's my soul. I'm giving it to you.
I hope you're listening.
Karen Healey
#45. I am anxious to give away information, for it is only by giving it away that you can keep it. When you have told it, you remember it. It is with information as it is with liberty, the only way to be dead sure of it is to give it to other people.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#46. How badly do you want to succeed? Are you giving it your all when no one is watching?
K.J. Kilton
#48. Taking love is easy - giving it is a bit harder, for some people anyway.
Nora Roberts
#49. Historically, over the last two or three hundred years, the relationship that we've had with money as a society - having money, talking about money - has been a little bit of a shameful thing. Splashing money about is clearly wrong, but there's nothing wrong about giving it back.
Arpad Busson
#50. The moment the door opened I knew an ass-kicking was inevitable. Whether I'd be giving it or receiving it was still a bit of a mystery.
Rachel Vincent
#51. Give up thinking as though not giving it up. Observe techniques as though not observing.
Bruce Lee
#52. The sea is as desolate and barren as it is fertile and life-giving. It is cold and dismal, yet bold and spirited. Sometimes imperious and conquering, other times gentle and meek. But it is always mysterious. Those mysteries hold many secrets. One has but to listen and watch to discover them
Jocelyn Murray
#53. Food is a coping mechanism; people are afraid of giving it up because then they'll feel confused and lost.
Phil McGraw
#54. I do like shopping high street, but I do consider the long-term value of a specific piece and, also, one day giving it up for somebody else to love and enjoy.
Erin O'Connor
#55. Historically, the French have had a romantic attachment to their bikes. Though the first functioning two-wheeler is thought to have been invented by a German in 1817, it was the French who popularized and marketed the device in the 1860s, giving it the name 'bicycle.'
Elaine Sciolino
#56. One doesn't stay in a state of nirvana by hiding from difficulties. You stay in nirvana by lavishing nirvana on everyone you meet, by giving it away as fast as you receive it.
Adyashanti
#58. A habit can be regarded as something that we do regularly without giving it too much thought. It is an automatic behavioral and mental activity, which makes us possible for us to do things without spending excessive mental energy.
Christ Lewis
#59. When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.
Alexander Pope
#60. Give up as much as you're willing to receive back and give yourself, if that makes any sense. Whatever that is, don't expect more from a person than what you're willing to give, but give it knowing that you're giving it - it's been given, so don't expect anything else.
Emayatzy Corinealdi
#61. You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.
Harry Browne
#62. My limited experience of such things told me that you get closest to the truth by not giving it advance warning that you're coming after it.
Michael Marshall Smith
#63. The germs of all truth lie in the soul, and when the ripe moment comes, the truth within answers to the fact without as the flower responds to the sun, giving it form for heat and color for light.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
#64. A consumer doesn't take anything away: he doesn't actually consume anything. Giving the same thing to a thousand consumers is not really any more expensive than giving it to just one.
Linus Torvalds
#65. Life is beautiful. It's about giving. It's about family.
Walt Disney
#66. Patience means knowing it will happen ... and giving it time to happen.
Susan Jeffers
#67. All the city was playing with this sound out there in the blue summer dark, throwing it up and calling it back, promising that, in a little while, life would be beautiful as a story, promising happiness, and by that promise giving it
F Scott Fitzgerald
#68. If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.
E.W. Howe
#69. And that's when he finally tells me his name is Ernest. I'm thinking of giving it away, though. Ernest is so dull, and Hemingway? Who wants a Hemingway?
Paula McLain
#70. Once a gift is given, no matter how you feel about the person giving it, it's yours.
Kristen Ashley
#71. We sometimes reveal how ignorant or bored we were when we read a book by giving it 5-stars.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#72. The danger lies in focusing on that pain, giving it a particular person's name, and keeping it always present in your thoughts.
Paulo Coelho
#73. I never really had an itch for gambling. I work hard for my money, so I don't like going out and giving it away like that.
Amanda Righetti
#74. As a general rule ... people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.
Alexandre Dumas
#75. When you understand the loving principle provided to you by the Universe, you will not be able to contain the love that is in your heart and giving it back to all beings.
Michael Cupo
#76. Tradition is the great misleader because it's too easy to follow what has already been done - even though you may think you're giving it a kick. I was really trying to invent, instead of merely expressing myself.
Marcel Duchamp
#77. Buying a lie is one thing, giving it away for free is quite another.
Douglas Horton
#78. You can see. Seeing is believing. Seeing is the gift that keeps giving. It's much more engaging than being seen.
Diane Keaton
#79. Accepting and feeling sympathy and love is not so healing as giving it.
Ruth Draper
#80. There has never been a moment when faith hasn't been an important part of my life. There have been moments when I've been more alive in my faith than others. There have been times when I've been more involved in my faith, dedicating more to it, and giving it more importance.
Marco Rubio
#81. There's a great joy in my giving. It's thrilling. It's exhilarating. It's important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy.
W. Clement Stone
#82. Are you delusional Sonya? Your Robert may not seem to be going through a crisis because he's secretly banging his secretary or whatever other bitch wants to give up that pussy. Don't let him fool you. He's not complaining about you not giving it up because he's getting sniz on the reg
Jane Emery
#83. I'm messing with my hair, giving it an ultra-body, sexy look to go with my outfit. ('Cause, well, if you're going to go hot - make it burn, right?)
Melanie Marks
#84. That night the wind was howling almost like a wolf and there were some real wolves off to the west giving it lessons.
George R R Martin
#85. It doesn't promote your life to reduce unearned guilt ... You should get rid of that guilt. It's unearned. You don't deserve it. So when we guilt businessmen into giving, it's not in their self-interest.
Yaron Brook
#86. I've always taught that a poor economy is the best opportunity for salespeople because the naysayers and grumblers have already given up, leaving more territory, more opportunities to be successful than in a good economy when virtually all salespeople are out there, giving it their best.
Zig Ziglar
#88. A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#89. The essence of forgiveness is absorbing pain instead of giving it.
Timothy Keller
#90. Giving with the intention of receiving really isn't giving, it's trading.
Robin Sharma
#91. Feedback often tells you more about the person who is giving it than about you.
Stephen Covey
#92. Then there was the terror; the overwhelming incapacity, one's parents giving it into one's hands, this life, to be lived to the end, to be walked with serenely;
Virginia Woolf
#93. I believe that the average guy in the street will give up a great deal, if he really understands the cost of not giving it up. In fact, we may find that, while we're drastically cutting our energy consumption, we're actually raising our standard of living.
David R. Brower
#94. Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.
Larry Bird
#95. I will never be a career actor, I don't think. I don't feel that I have the skill set to jump into it that way, although I wouldn't mind giving it a try.
Larry Mullen Jr.
#96. It's just a word and I feel so much more than four fuckin' letters. But you need to hear it from me right now, so I'm giving it to you. I love you, London.
Nashoda Rose
#97. Forgiveness is an act of giving; it is an act of love.
Debasish Mridha
#99. Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name.
Agnes Repplier
#100. Those who grow Tall by giving it their All, without the worry of Fall, are powered by a Passion,that is born from Inspiration.-RVM
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