Top 100 Giving Taking Quotes
#1. A book being read is a transaction between author & reader, a sharing, giving, taking & a reimagining of the author's offering.
Mark Rubinstein
#2. All life is part of a complex relationship in which each is dependent upon the others, taking from, giving to and living with all the rest.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
#3. He raised himself above her pallid face and kissed her on both closed eyes and thought: she thinks she is taking and does not know that she is giving; in her loneliness she has fled to me and does not suspect my loneliness.
Hermann Hesse
#4. I'd like to think I am taking people on a journey; I am not just entertaining people, but giving them something to think about when they leave.
Madonna Ciccone
#5. His vocals are the stuff of legend - strong, clean, and powerful with a rawness that hooks into your soul and gives it a tug. He sings, and you feel he's doing it just for you, taking your pain, frustration, joy, rage, sorrow, and love and giving it a voice.
Kristen Callihan
#6. i thank the universe
for taking
everything it has taken
and giving to me
everything it is giving
-balance
Rupi Kaur
#7. "Star Trek" expands almost instinctively - the more information you seek from it, the more it gives. It also has the benefit of taking place in our future, our mutual destinies as occupants of a peaceful, non-polluted Earth.
Hank Stuever
#8. Fear will try to keep you from taking that first step. Don't give in to fear, do it afraid.
Joyce Meyer
#9. So many people around me would say they cared for the wrong reasons. A lot of people were pulling from me, taking from me and not giving.
Lindsay Lohan
#10. It comes down to taking care of the people in your program and making them the best they can be-not giving up on them and never failing to be there for them.
Pete Carroll
#11. You won't be giving me away, father,' she had said before they went to church; 'you'll only be taking Aaron to be a son to you.
George Eliot
#12. Beware of those who are stingy, for they would rather sting you than give you anything.
Suzy Kassem
#13. The decision to give ourselves to others is a daily taking up of the cross.
Charles R. Swindoll
#14. There are two types of people on earth: givers and takers. Life is not about taking and having but about giving and living.
GE Paulus
#15. I know forgiveness is a man's duty, but, to my thinking, that can only mean as you're to give up all thoughts o' taking revenge: it can never mean as you're t' have your old feelings back again, for that's not possible.
George Eliot
#16. The point is that the foundation that undergirds the act is one of mutual respect and giving- not taking or using.
Sylvain Reynard
#17. You are not ready to accept the fact that you have to give up. A complete and total 'surrender'.
It is a state of hopelessness which says that there is no way out. Any movement in any direction, on any dimension, at any level, is taking you away from yourself.
U.G. Krishnamurti
#18. I'm against government giving money to artists, but I'm not against artists taking money. Just like I don't have a moral problem with people taking healthcare from the government, but I don't think government should give it.
Chester Brown
#19. I think the violence is important. It all depends on the genre. Rambo was ultra-violent, and I think it worked. You have to give Stallone credit. You have to respect him for taking that shot, and taking the violence all the way. He was the first one to do that in a long time. It fricking worked.
Dolph Lundgren
#20. I used and abused drugs and alcohol. When I stopped doing that it became a lot clearer that life goes from inside to giving as opposed to taking and destroying.
Stanley Kubrick
#21. But strong isn't suits and a stupidly expensive lifestyle." "No?" "No. Strong is having the faith to run after a guy you've fallen for and taking the risk of looking like an idiot in the middle of St Pancras. And not giving enough of a fuck to not do it.
Amy Lane
#22. I have come to believe that giving and receiving are really the same. Giving and receiving - not giving and taking
Joyce Grenfell
#23. She now belonged to two Doms. She was theirs for the taking, but also for the giving
Lila Munro
#24. If your novel seems to be dragging, one of the first places to look is at the heart of your lead character. Is he giving up too easily? Has she been taking it too long? Are there too many scenes where he's thinking and not doing? - James Scott Bell
Anonymous
#25. :That's what you do when you love someone." ... "You give all you have to give," he said, "and they do the same. You fill each other up." ... "It doesn't work if it isn't even, though," I said. "If one does all the giving and the other does all the taking
Catherine Gayle
#26. There were people who could live on their own and be happy, and then there were people like Pen and Margaret who needed the falling together, the daily work of giving and taking and talk and touch.
Marisa De Los Santos
#27. Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.
Bill Shankly
#28. Taking in money, banks were like industrial vacuum cleaners. Giving it out, they were clogged faucets
Dean Koontz
#29. The idea of celebrity has always been very strange to me because it's taking the focus away from the music and attaching it to a person. When we put someone on a pedestal or idolize them, we're giving our own power away.
Marketa Irglova
#30. I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality.
J.J. Abrams
#31. It's only by taking myself away from clutter and distraction that I can begin to hear something out of earshot and recall that listening is much more invigorating than giving voice to all the thoughts and prejudices that anyway keep me company twenty-four hours a day.
Pico Iyer
#32. I'm giving you my soul my Sweet Olivia. Take care of it, as I will take care of yours. I'm not waiting for you to give me yours, I'm taking what I know is mine. -Garrett
Elisa Leigh
#34. It's easy to be afraid of taking a plunge, because, after all, plunging is dangerous. And the fear is a safe way to do nothing at all. Wading, on the other hand, gets under the radar. It gives you a chance to begin.
Seth Godin
#35. I was supposed to take the ball out. I told coach there's no way I'm taking the ball out, unless I can shoot it over the backboard and it goes in. I told him, 'Have somebody else take the ball out, give me the ball, and everybody get out of the way.'
LeBron James
#36. How are you? How was your flight? He hit the Send button without recognizing that in writing to her he was taking a step back from his life as he knew it and into the unknown future, for one cannot embark upon the new without giving up something in return.
Jill Bialosky
#38. Taking a lady's hand gives her confidence in her physician.
William Osler
#39. The highest point of humility consists in not merely acknowledging one's abjection, but in taking pleasure therein, not from any want of breadth or courage, but to give the more glory to God's Divine Majesty, and to esteem one's neighbour more highly than one's self.
Saint Francis De Sales
#42. This (presidential) system will not bear any resemblance to dictatorships under the same name in Africa and Asia, (It) will be unique to Turkey, it will be like a bee making honey, taking something from every flower and giving us a taste of a truly different honey.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
#43. The Gesundheit Institute is a pie in the face of greed - by taking the most expensive thing in America, health care, and giving it away for free.
Patch Adams
#44. Working nine to five, what way to earn a living.
Barely getting by ... It's all taking and no giving.
They use just your mind and they never give you credit.
It's enough to drive you crazy if you let it!
Dolly Parton
#45. I decree today that life is simply taking and not giving, England is mine and it owes me a living
Steven Morrissey
#46. We have come to think of taking offence as a fundamental right. We value very little more highly than our rage, which gives us, in our opinion, the moral high ground. From this high ground we can shoot down at our enemies and inflict heavy fatalities.
Salman Rushdie
#47. I don't see why its taking so long," Maryse was saying to Magnus "is that normal?"
"What's not normal is the discount I'm giving you."Magnus tapped the heel of his boot against the wall. "Normally I charge twice this much
Cassandra Clare
#48. Great leadership is not about giving orders, it's about taking others
Saji Ijiyemi
#49. Tell me, is there someone in your life who's been sharing your life too closely? A friend or a loved one? Is there someone who's been taking up your time and not giving any of it back?
Alexandra Kleeman
#50. Running after balls, diving, taking a home run away, it gives me such a good feeling. I am happy to do it.
Carlos Beltran
#51. Deep breathing belly exercises strengthen the abdominal tissues responsible for lung expansion. Taking a few deep breaths periodically is like giving your brain a blast of unexpected oxygen. Your neurons
Robert DeMaria
#52. And he encourages Lewis to take the same chance he is taking, to count on the "perchance." And Lewis did. For the rest of his life he was a champion of the knowledge-giving power of myth, fantasy, Faery.
Alan Jacobs
#53. And since the griefstruck rarely know what they need or want, only what they don't, offence-giving and offence-taking are common.
Julian Barnes
#54. All the messages our kids are getting is money-taking, not giving.
Patch Adams
#56. Better off dead than giving in; not taking what you want.
Carol Ann Duffy
#57. For all my bravado, when I fell, I fell hard. I fell fast. I fell stupid. I invested too much too soon. My capacity for giving was matched only by their capacity for taking.
Penny Reid
#58. I have only hated men at those moments when I realized that I was doing all the giving and they the taking. At least when I was a prostitute, it was all honest and upfront.
Xaviera Hollander
#59. With photography, I like to create a fiction out of reality. I try and do this by taking society's natural prejudice and giving this a twist.
Martin Parr
#60. Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country and giving it to the rich people of a poor country.
Ron Paul
#61. The fact is that a bill allowing any employer to deny insurance coverage based on a moral objection - along with giving an employer permission to ask for medical records showing why a woman is taking birth control - opens up a set of problems that I'm sure its sponsors have not fully considered.
Richard Carmona
#63. Taking B12 is the price of getting to be vegan, the way wearing a helmet is the price of getting to ride a motorcycle and giving up alcohol for nine months is the price of getting to have a baby.
Victoria Moran
#64. In relationships with a directors, I want to be able to give and take, and I can't name what it is: respect, energy, investment in the task, focus, humor, intelligence, but I always feel responsible for taking the money.
Harrison Ford
#65. To be always giving, is to encourage a forcible taking when you refuse to give.
Publilius Syrus
#66. He waits.
And I think that is what I would like love to be. Leaving room for each other, knowing that not every step is going to be side by side.
Giving more than taking. Waiting. Trusting,
Amy Garvey
#67. She had found in the past that a voluptuously long, hot shower cold be made to seem almost as health-giving as a night's sleep; she had learned too that taking exquisite pains over the selection and putting-on of clothes could sometimes be as good a way as any of helping the hours to pass.
Richard Yates
#68. Balance is not a passive resting place - it takes work, balancing the giving and the taking, the raking out and the putting in.
Robin Wall Kimmerer
#69. Patch's eyes were black orbs. Taking in everything and giving away nothing.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#70. They always give you three ketchup packets. When you go back up and ask for more, the guy handing them out always treats you like you're taking from his personal stash. "Looks like my kids aren't having ketchup tonight."
Jim Gaffigan
#71. It's easier to take than to give. It's nobler to give than to take. The thrill of taking lasts a day. The thrill of giving lasts a lifetime.
Joan Marques
#72. Give yourself a deadline to stop planning and to start taking action.
Andy Gilbert
#73. The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when.
Simon Sinek
#74. My strongest quality as an actor is taking direction. I will give my performance as a template and if the director gives any instruction, I take that information, process it and morph it into the next take. I love the feeling I get when nailing a scene through direction.
James Preston Rogers
#75. Love respects the other. It is a give-and-take relationship. Love enjoys giving, and love enjoys taking. It is a sharing, it is a communication. Both are equal in love; in a sexual relationship both are not equal. Love has a totally different beauty to it.
Rajneesh
#76. In the U.S., we've given corporations all the powers and freedoms of an individual but with none of the responsibility. Corporations need to be giving back to their communities just as much as they're taking away.
Morgan Spurlock
#77. First and foremost, if we maintain healthy emotional boundaries and direct love and kindness inwards, we are taking care of ourselves and secondly we are giving a subliminal message to others about how we wish to be treated. People tend to subconsciously treat us how we treat ourselves.
Christopher Dines
#78. God giving man life and taking it away is not nearly so bad as God taking away childhood and giving him life.
James Gunn
#79. I don't like taking from anyone. I'd rather be a giver, though not for any worthy reason. It's about control, obviously. If I give, I control; if I take, I am controlled. If someone offers me something for free I am at once suspicious.
Margaret Forster
#80. The problem with taking venture capital is if you take $5m from someone, it may feel great; you may feel like they're validating your business model. But they're giving $5m out to 20 different people, hoping one of them will be a hit. They don't really care if it's you.
Jon Oringer
#81. The difference between self love and being in love with yourself is that one results in giving and the other in taking.
Jeffrey Fry
#82. Greed often finds more pleasure in taking from others than in giving to itself.
Simon May
#83. It is ridiculous to assume you can tax the people that are working and give the money (to people) who are not working and somehow this creates economy activity. You are destroying as much by taking from those who are working and creating.
Yaron Brook
#84. Life is not having, it's wanting. Life is not taking, it's giving. Life is not dying, it's living.
Heather Dorff
#86. During sex, people are often way too focused on giving or taking to actually just celebrate this moment, be themselves completely, and rejoice in their own realities.
Roberto Hogue
#87. I believe in taking care of myself and teaching other people who want to learn. I don't believe in just printing money and giving money. I'm willing to teach those who are willing to learn. If you're not willing to learn, then go vote for Obama. I'm not Republican or Democrat, so don't get me wrong.
Robert Kiyosaki
#88. In recent times, modern science has developed to give mankind, for the first time in the history of the human race, a way of securing a more abundant life which does not simply consist in taking away from someone else.
Karl Taylor Compton
#89. True compassion is not about giving or taking. True compassion is doing just what is needed.
Jaggi Vasudev
#90. Don't give up.' Ilyas felt his eyes tear up.
'I'm not giving up. I'm taking precautions to protect the only person I really care about in this whole damn world.
Astrid Amara
#91. I want everything or nothing. A life for a life, taking one and giving up another without hesitation and beyond recall. Or else better have nothing!
Ivan Turgenev
#92. Giving and taking of orders modifies actions and results, but does not of itself effect a sharing of purposes, a communication of interests.
John Dewey
#93. The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesn't produce money. Ideas produce money.
Shimon Peres
#94. When you just wing it, you are aware of the risk and the uncertainty, and inclined to be more cautious. When you have a high-tech tool giving you an illusion of omniscience, I am concerned that it will lead to greater risk-taking. LYONS:
Neal Stephenson
#95. There are those who live and die giving love, without receiving any. And those who live life just taking, never giving. So the universe gives a boon to a few lucky souls: Who they love will love them back - all their lives.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
#96. Giving and taking are based on our motives and values, and they're choices that we make regardless of whether our personalities trend agreeable or disagreeable.
Adam M. Grant
#97. It would be helpful if the universe would give us one big clue, or a giant compass, if you will, pointing to the direction we should be taking. In fact, the compass is there. To find it, you need only look inside yourself to discover your soul's purest desire, its dream for your life.
Deepak Chopra
#98. Dating is a give and take. If you only see it as "Taking," you are not getting it.
Henry Cloud
#99. The elephant goad represents Yama, the god of death and bondage. Ganesha thus acknowledges the life-giving aspect of nature as well as the life-taking aspect of nature.
Devdutt Pattanaik
#100. We receive all we venture to give. And one of the things I've learned over the years is that giving is everything, and taking is nothing.
Jon Anderson
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