Giving Reason Quotes

#1. The imagination of creative thought can be a crazy place,this giving reason to write it down to try and make sense of it all.

Helen Ingram

#2. 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

#3. If he can give his readers no reason why they should read his book, except that the events happened to him, it is not a valid book.

Ayn Rand

#4. The one piece of advice I can give you is, do what turns you on. Do something that if you had all the money in the world, you'd still be doing it. You've got to have a reason to jump out of bed in the morning.

Warren Buffett

#5. Reason and right give the quickest despatch.

Owen Feltham

#6. Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein.

Karl Kraus

#7. I do things - whether it's donations or events for good causes or giving back to my community - for the right reason: because I want to. Because it's the best thing to do. I wanna help someone else out.

LeSean McCoy

#8. For they have no conception how a rational creature can be compelled, but only advised, or exhorted; because no person can disobey reason, without giving up his claim to be a rational creature.

Jonathan Swift

#9. 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.

Mahatma Gandhi

#10. I see no reason for giving the capital employed in agriculture greater protection than the capital vested in other branches of trade, manufacture, or commerce.

Joseph Hume

#11. But it is the knowledge of necessary and eternal truths which distinguishes us from mere animals, and gives us reason and the sciences, raising us to knowledge of ourselves and God. It is this in us which we call the rational soul or mind.

Gottfried Leibniz

#12. Giving style to one's character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason and even weakness delights the eye.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. The next time you want to withhold your help, or your love, or your support for another for whatever the reason, ask yourself a simple question: do the reasons you want to withhold it reflect more on them or on you? And which reasons do you want defining you forevermore?

Dan Pearce

#14. He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.

George Bernard Shaw

#15. I hated her with everything I had because it was the only emotion I had to give. I realized, even then, I was giving her everything.
She was the bane of my existence, and at the very same, the reason I cared to exist.

B.B. Reid

#16. They say you better listen to the voice of reason But they don't give you any choice 'cause they think that it's treason. So you had better do as you are told. You better listen to the radio.

Elvis Costello

#17. I am still a student. My classmates study really hard, so I feel like I should too. But they always say things like: "You don't have to.", "Aren't you busy?", "Just give up, you have another way."; But I don't think that's right. There's no reason for me to give up, I didn't quit high school.

Seohyun

#18. Everything is an experiment until it has a deadline. That gives it a destination, context, and a reason.

Brian Eno

#19. It is our responsibility to learn how to speak to an audience that is less informed about music, to give it a reason to want to come and see us instead of going to the movies.

Renee Fleming

#20. Each language gives you something different so that's a good enough reason for you to learn it.

Gwenno

#21. Entertain me, heroes of Olympus. Give me a reason to do more. Bacchus to Percy and Jason

Rick Riordan

#22. Well, if I'm only a result of past causes, then I'm a victim of those past causes. There is no deeper meaning behind things that gives me a reason to be here.

James Hillman

#23. Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning; they are an incentive to keep you going all day.

Harvey MacKay

#24. A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably ... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.

Aristotle.

#25. We seem to be afraid to give the Kurds weaponry. We like to send it for some strange reason through Baghdad, and then they only get a tenth of it.

Benjamin Carson

#26. You lose nothing by being polite. The answer is 'No', but please say it politely and give the reasons ... Explain to me why 'No'. Don't change 'No' to 'Yes'. Don't be a fool. If there was a good reason why it is 'No', it must remain 'No', but the man must be told politely.

Mr. Lee

#27. Republicans and conservatives have to figure out that Democrats have plenty of rope to hang themselves on their own. But you have to give voters a reason to vote for you as well.

Andrea Tantaros

#28. Let him who believes in immortality enjoy his happiness in silence; he has no reason to give himself airs about it.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#29. The main reason that smokers find it difficult to quit is that they believe that they are giving up a genuine pleasure or crutch. It is absolutely essential to understand that there is nothing to 'give up'.

Allen Carr

#30. Mr Palliser was one of those politicians in possessing whom England has perhaps more reason to be proud than of any other of her resources, and who, as a body, give to her that exquisite combination of conservatism and progress which is her present strength and best security for the future.

Anthony Trollope

#31. reason for giving up an itinerant life

Tom Clavin

#32. The media, the corporations, the politicians ... have all done such a good job of scaring the American public, it's come to the point where they don't need to give any reason at all.

Michael Moore

#33. Men give the same lines to different women for the same reason women wear the same perfume for different men; we all try the things that work.

Warren Farrell

#34. Discover the joy of giving and you will discover the reason for living.

Mark Victor Hansen

#35. Let us not see today's troubles as a reason to give up; let us see them as an opportunity for God to deliver.

Dillon Burroughs

#36. The reason Buddhism can be so naturalised is because, stripped of its supernatural elements, its core teachings can be giving a sound, secular philosophical interpretation. In other words, it becomes a religion acceptable to the contemporary, naturalistic mind only when it ceases to be a religion.

Julian Baggini

#37. I don't believe in that term 'self-made' - not to be offensive, but I believe everything happens for a reason, every single person you meet. Even if it's one single person giving you advice, that person helped you get to where you're at today.

Michelle Phan

#38. Of the world and drudgery of business , seeks a pretense of reason to give itself a full and uncontrolled indulgence.

David Hume

#39. When asked why they quit, the lapsed dieters cited complexity as the single most important reason for giving up. Simplicity is even more important when people are tired, stressed, or otherwise cognitively impaired.

Donald Sull

#40. It's everybody's duty to give the world a reason to dance.

Robby Novak

#41. For no reason at all, he thought that she looked like a nun. The beautiful kind. The kind that gave and gave because that's what they knew how to do. And the giving made them more beautiful.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#42. The quality of life that you have is determined solely by the effort you put into giving your life value, purpose and a reason.

Steven Redhead

#43. Reason alone cannot give you a whole steak, but it sure helps with identifying bologna.

Peter Kreeft

#44. A hope of something beyond our place and time. This is what books - the best books - give us: a lifeline, a reason to believe, a way to breathe more freely.

Blake Morrison

#45. I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I'm giving you myself in the music. There's where the connection comes from; you can't Twitter that.

J. Cole

#46. To give either to any public matter of interest or to any concern of my own, but I am in utter poverty by reason of my devotion to the god .

Socrates

#47. When people give you their stated reason for doing something always assume they are giving you a reason that sounds good, but not the real reason.

James Altucher

#48. Finding your purpose may be a lifelong pursuit or you may have discovered it when you were 5 years old. There's no absolute timeline for anyone. That's a good reason never to give up, to keep on discovering things every day.

Donald Trump

#49. Unfaithfulness ought to extinguish love, and we should not be jealous when there is reason to be. Only those who give no grounds for jealousy are worthy of it.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#50. We rested beneath the stars and I counted each one, giving it a reason why I loved you. It was wonderful until I ran out of stars.

David Ellsworth

#51. It is not reason that gives us our moral orientation, it is sensitivity.

Maurice Barres

#52. All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.

John Henry Newman

#53. In front of him stood the woman of his dreams, giving him one last chance to kiss her.
Reason didn't stand a chance.

Tan Redding

#54. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have,

Josh McDowell

#55. Everything that gives pleasure has its reason. To scorn the mobs of those who go astray is not the means to bring them around.

Charles Baudelaire

#56. One girl said that she'd never support giving immigrants jobs because her dad lost his job a few years ago, and the reason he couldn't find a new one was because the government was letting immigrants have all the jobs.

Robin Talley

#57. Be sure of the foundation of your life. Know why you live as you do. Be ready to give a reason for it. Do not, in such a matter as life, build an opinion or custom on what you guess is true. Make it a matter of certainty and science.

Thomas Starr King

#58. Even if you are angry and you have reason to be angry, that doesn't give you license to be cruel. We have to take responsibility for ourselves and the way we act.

Christi Paul

#59. There is never a reason to give up! It's always going on somehow!

Bill Kaulitz

#60. I can't give other people what I've not experienced to some extent myself. It sharpens your game and also, like any athlete, you're more fit because you have to be. You're getting ready because you have a reason to.

Tony Robbins

#61. The condition of mankind is, and always has been, so miserable and depraved that, if anyone were to say to the poet: "For God's sake stop singing and do something useful like putting on the kettle or fetching bandages," what just reason could he give for refusing?

W. H. Auden

#62. To motivate" is the act of giving somebody a reason or incentive to do things.

Pearl Zhu

#63. We must suffer. Our five sense are dulled by inordinate pleasure. Penance makes them keen, gives them back their natural vitality, and more. Penance clears the eye of conscience and of reason. It helps think clearly, judge sanely. It strengthens the action of our will.

Thomas Merton

#64. The person who will give you unexplained happiness, will also be the reason for your unexplained sadness.

Zayn Malik

#65. Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe things without evidence. It then asks us to respect this, which it calls faith.

Christopher Hitchens

#66. There is no reason in the world why we shouldn't fight for the preservation of a chance to live freely, no reason why we shouldn't suffer to uphold that which we want to endure. May God give me the courage to do my duty and not falter.

Nile Kinnick

#67. I welcome challenges. I like challenges. It gives me a reason to keep going.

Rose Namajunas

#68. There are two reasons why anybody buys anything. The real reason, and the reason they give you.

Mark Twain

#69. What's to be the reason for becoming man and wife, is it love that brings you here, or love that gives you life?

Paul Stookey

#70. The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself.

Pablo Picasso

#71. When the path becomes difficult, that's no reason to give up. In fact, it means you're making real progress.

Ralph Marston

#72. Fear will give us a reason not to try; hope will give us a reason not to listen.

Bob Goff

#73. I know that I have done many things to give you reason not to listen to me

Sinead O'Connor

#74. Having a rough day? Place your hand over your heart. Feel that? It's called purpose. You're alive for a reason. Don't give up

Joyce Meyer

#75. In my reading and in my studies I always tried to achieve a harmony between faith, reason, and the heart. These are not separate areas, but are profoundly interconnected, each giving life to the other.

Pope John Paul II

#76. You must not believe in charity." I absolutely do, and support charities all the time. I just discern the differences between true charity, which is giving of one's own free will, "from the heart", and forced "charity" which isn't really charity at all, for the very reason that it's forced.

Kira Saoirse

#77. Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.

Bobby Fischer

#78. Young man, your problem and the reason so many like you fail, is simply because you allow yourself to give up far too early.

Chris Murray

#79. There is no reason to hit a woman. And I was just like, really? I could give you like 17 right off the top of my head.

Bill Burr

#80. For some reason it gives people pleasure to equate the life of certain movie actors or actresses with their actual lives.

Woody Allen

#81. Nothing is stronger or better founded than the sentiments for which we can give no reason.

Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

#82. But isn't it enough that I just don't want it?"
"No," said Fiona. "It isn't enough."
"Why not?"
"Well, if that was enough, if just saying no and not giving a reason was enough, where would we be? It would just be chaos.

Ken MacLeod

#83. Help others without any reason and give without the expectation of receiving anything in return.

Roy T. Bennett

#84. I would give worlds, if I had them, if The Age of Reason had never been published. O Lord, help! Stay with me! It is hell to be left alone.

Thomas Paine

#85. Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.

Arthur Helps

#86. Conservatives need to figure out a way to motivate by reason and persuade through emotion. Meaning that when they talk about our issues, it can't come from a selfish place - "Give me a tax cut. Where's my tax cut." We have to get back to that "shining city on the hill."

Andrea Tantaros

#87. Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on.

Steven Callahan

#88. Looking forward with an eternal perspective gives one hope, a reason to look up and feel gratitude for even the smallest bit of light.

Rosemary M. Wixom

#89. There is no effective rational answer to the challenge: "But give me a reason why I should love someone who does not deserve it." Love is the highest thing. There can be no higher reason to justify it.

Peter Kreeft

#90. Most people just give up with time and go, "I'm a victim." The only reason I've got the reputation for delays and spending a long time on things is because I just don't stop.

Kevin Shields

#91. If you want to stand out from the crowd, give people a reason not to forget you

Richard Branson

#92. The reason I was able to give up smoking was because of the computer. You couldn't lean a cigarette on a computer, like you could on a typewriter. So it just made it that much more difficult to smoke. So I quit.

Robert Stone

#93. From the beginning on, newspapers have prospered for one reason: giving readers the news that they want.

Rupert Murdoch

#94. Not because they were servants were we so reserved, for many noble persons are forced to serve through necessity, but by reason the vulgar sort of servants are as ill bred as meanly born, giving children ill examples and worse counsel.

Margaret Cavendish

#95. I do think the author ought to be able to give a good reason for the way things are in his poem. Not a bad question to ask oneself.

James Dickey

#96. If you are going to leave message, you have to be able to give enough value or reason to get your voice mail returned.

Jeffrey Gitomer

#97. The author perceives nuances of Abigail Adams' character in the occasional errors she makes in readily quoting John Milton. Rather than giving the observer a reason to quibble, they are evidence that she had absorbed Milton's works enough to feel comfortable quoting them from memory.

David McCullough

#98. Give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food and the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies with yourself.

Rhonda Byrne

#99. I wrote a whole novel before The Beach. Unpublishable. Junk. But, for some reason I stuck at novels and wrote a second. Still not sure why I didn't give up. Stubborn, maybe.

Alex Garland

#100. If the reason I give is a good one, you will act upon it. If it is a bad one I cannot make it better by piling epithet upon epithet. There is no logic in abuse; there is no argument in an epithet.

Robert Green Ingersoll