Top 100 Quotes About Giving
#1. This morning, he had been doomed for a dismal eternity,but instead, standing before him was a woman giving him everything he had dreamed of but never thought he would possess.
Michele Sinclair
#2. I can't. I can't force them to give up everything when I can prevent it by giving up something.
Tenille Berezay
#3. The actor's tense, he's being taped and things are not falling naturally. That's what I hate about Boadway. I feel like I'm giving a whole lot for nothing. I like to capture things and hold them there and share them with the whole world.
Michael Jackson
#4. Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which ... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.
Alan Greenspan
#5. Fox News never calls up Bobby Seale to articulate a stance in opposition to right-wing conservatives. To me, giving the New Black Panthers a platform on Fox is a subtle tactic to scare people.
Bobby Seale
#6. A lack of giving in the life of a person will bring him to poverty.
Sunday Adelaja
#7. I'm giving [my analyst] one more year
then I'm going to Lourdes.
Woody Allen
#8. By staying, by shirking the responsibility and effort of leaving, by continuing to occupy this lovely man while giving him neither children nor a public companion nor a welcoming home-do I do wrong?
Anna Lyndsey
#9. Maybe art itself was a kind of voodoo, possessing you, giving you supernatural power, letting you see in the dark.
Philip Pullman
#10. You see I have to be in the clinic every Thursday and it's in Phoenix so I have to fly down or drive down. It has to be every Thursday for this damn stuff they're giving me.
Lee Hazlewood
#11. As a writer, as a creator, I'm giving you my experiences. But just take what I give you. You ain't got to pry beyond that.
Frank Ocean
#12. We often mistake letting go for giving up. Knowing the difference between
the two can make all the difference in the end.
Gina Greenlee
#13. Giving up doesn't always mean your weak sometimes your just strong enough to let go
Taylor Swift
#14. Maybe if you win a Nobel Prize in economics, you make a lot of money by giving talks ... but not in my area.
Wolfgang Ketterle
#16. The fastest and cheapest way to eradicate poverty is not by giving food but by giving hope, love, and education.
Debasish Mridha
#17. The joy of giving is indeed a pleasure, especially when you get rid of something you don't want.
Frank Butler
#18. We were never created to settle for mere religion. Jesus did not die so that we could have a religious belief system - but rather a life-giving relationship with our Father.
Christine Caine
#19. Wait just a goddamn minute, Josie. We're not finished. No way in fuck I'm giving up that easy. You're worth fighting for.
Maya Banks
#20. Aviation has struck a delicately balanced world, a world where stability was already giving way to the pressure of new dynamic forces, a world dominated by a mechanical, materialist,
Western European civilization.
Charles Lindbergh
#21. Sleep marks passing time, giving us distance from the things that have hurt us. When a person is wounded they will often fall unconscious. Similarly, someone who hears traumatic news will often swoon or faint. This is the mind's way of protecting itself from pain.
Patrick Rothfuss
#22. I guess I need to find a happy medium, someplace between giving them what they want and ending up face-down in a pool of my own goddamn integrity.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#23. I trust that I raised a strong enough woman to know who's worthy of her and who isn't. If this guy is good enough for you, and he's the one who has you floating around on cloud nine and giving you back your spark, you can be damn sure he's good enough for me.
Cherrie Lynn
#24. Our full humanity is contingent on our hospitality; we can be complete only when we are giving something away; when we sit at the table and pass the peas to the person next to us we see that person in a whole new way.
Alice Waters
#25. It's not about finding your voice, it's about giving yourself permission to use your voice.
Kris Carr
#26. I believe books are life's best gifts, as they allow us to venture into worlds we never thought existed. Giving us a chance to be someone different, giving us the chance to dawdle in the words - And feel free!
Anonymous
#27. Democracy is welcoming people from other lands, and giving them something to hold onto. Usually a mop or a leaf blower.
Johnny Carson
#28. Hip-hop music has done a very good job of maintaining the political context, where they stand and not giving a sh-t what people think.
Conor Oberst
#29. It seems like women are always in the kitchen around food and they're serving and they're giving and they're enjoying and it's part of the plentitude of life and the enrichment of life.
Kathy Bates
#30. What happens to each of my female heroes, certainly, is they find something bigger than themselves that they are honored to serve. It's not giving up your family.
Tamora Pierce
#31. Life is constantly supporting us and giving us gifts. It's a matter of opening ourselves to that.
Dan Millman
#32. Hockey is a tough game. With all the talk and everything that's going on right now, it frightens me a little bit that we are giving our players an excuse not to hit. I just hope that we don't take that out of our game at the pro level.
Bobby Orr
#33. In my reading of philosophy, I saw that there were innumerable problems that nobody was giving answers for. the Bible, it struck me, dealt with man's problems in a sweeping, all-encompassing thrust.
Francis Schaeffer
#34. You fucking raped me with emotional orgasms. Repeatedly. I'm just giving you a physical one, why am I the criminal now?
Lucian Bane
#35. All of us have to recognize that we owe our children more than we have been giving them.
Hillary Clinton
#36. Love is the cure,
for your pain will keep giving birth to more pain
until your eyes constantly exhale love as effortlessly as your body yields its scent.
Rumi
#37. Civilization depends on continually making the effort, of never giving in. It needs to be cared for by men of goodwill, protected from the dark.
Iain Pears
#38. I'm very giving. Even if it's for nonsense, I'll give it to you.
Tracy Morgan
#39. When they give you things, ask yourself why. When you're grateful to them for giving you the things you should have anyway, ask yourself why.
Jeff VanderMeer
#40. Now, even as her family grieved, she was giving birth again.
Mark Oristano
#41. If we look at things as they are instead of giving them our own shape and colour, life will be less complicated
Santosh Joshi
#42. I asked you what you wanted and you said you didn't want anything. And I told you I wasn't planning on giving you anything; I was planning on giving you something.
David Levithan
#43. Our mistakes would not wish for anything more, if we could just stop giving birth to them.
Munia Khan
#44. It's very healthy for a young girl to be deterred from promiscuity by fear of contracting a painful, incurable disease, or cervical cancer, or sterility, or the likelihood of giving birth to a dead, blind or brain-damaged baby (even ten years later when she may be happily married).
Phyllis Schlafly
#45. If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?
Van Wyck Brooks
#46. Thank you for giving me your arm and those four hours that I now understand you did not have an endless supply of. It was short but I loved our little trip. We fell in love, but the way you love a view that comes along once or twice in life.
Mary-Louise Parker
#47. Once my husband said to me, 'I'm going to have some coffee. Do you want me to put some hot water on for you?' I thought that was the least he could do considering I was giving birth.
Phyllis Diller
#48. I'm now so much more capable of receiving love and giving it in a far different way.
Nicole Kidman
#50. Bacon , Locke , Descartes , Hume , and all the others knew they were giving rights to vulgarity. But in so doing in addition to caring for man's well-being they were providing rights for themselves.
Allan Bloom
#51. When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.
Alan W. Watts
#52. There is always a better option, than the option giving up.
Omar Abbasi
#53. 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
#54. Emotional instability can be one of the factors giving rise to a failure by chess players in important duels. Under the influence of surging emotions (and not necessarily negative ones) we sometimes lose concentration and stop objectively evaluating the events that are taking place on the board.
Mark Dvoretsky
#55. By the late '80s, I was already giving up on rap music.
Chuck Eddy
#56. If you don't value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents- start charging for it.
Kim Garst
#57. It is best to be born in April or August when the life-giving Sun is in its exaltation sign Aries or Leo, its home, for then we enter the sea of life on the crest-wave and are backed in the battle of existence by an abundant fund of vim and energy.
Max Heindel
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Anonymous
#59. I know the British press is very attached to the lobby system. It lets the journalists and the politicians feel proud of their traditional freedoms while giving the reader as much of the truth as they think is good for him.
Tom Stoppard
#60. 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
#61. I'm truly grateful to the writers of Fringe for giving me that because, over the years, when I've spoken about the character with them, I've always felt that this would be the perfect way to end and complete his journey, and to complete the journey of this series, and they gave it to me.
John Noble
#63. Little by little, the city falls away, like something giving up...
Harriet Lane
#64. Where there's more of singing and less of sighing,
Where there's more of giving and less of buying,
And a man makes friends without half trying
That's where the West begins.
Arthur Chapman
#65. We were created for the purpose of giving God's invisible character a glimpse of visibility.
Beth Moore
#66. Love and knwoledge have one thing in common; both live on giving and sharing, more you share more it will be and make impacts over impacts, influence one to another. Love will not get lesser by giving, knowledge too..
Baris Gencel
#67. 8'Our Lord, do not let our hearts deviate after You have guided us. Grant us Your mercy: You are the Ever Giving.
Anonymous
#68. Giving up on God and on oneself constitutes simultaneous surrender to the natural man.
Neal A. Maxwell
#69. The process is a lot like writing. You start with a wisp of memory, or some detail that won't let you be. You write, you cross out. You write again, revise, feel like giving up. What pulls you through? Curiosity.
Abigail Thomas
#70. We can lay down our lives for those we love not by physically dying for them but rather by living for them - giving of our time; always being present in their lives; serving them; being courteous, affectionate, and showing true love for those of our family and to all men - as the Savior taught.
Claudio R.M. Costa
#71. You can't measure a dog's intelligence by giving him a verbal test 'cause it's not on their scale, but that doesn't mean they're not intelligent creatures.
Bryan Fuller
#72. Giving your team cover for their cowardice is foolish. Give them a platform for bravery instead.
Seth
#73. It is physically impossible for the human mind to think of nothing. The soul craves emotion, and it will continue to seek fuel for that emotion - good or bad. Your problem is that you're giving it the wrong fuel.
Dan Brown
#74. All the grown-ups she knows keep taking bits of her guts away with them and never giving them back.
Brooke Davis
#75. The purpose of God's creations and of His giving us life is to allow us to have the learning experience necessary for us to come back to Him, to live with Him in eternal life.
Henry B. Eyring
#76. I still remember you
as a little girl
who overwaters plants
because she doesn't know
when to stop giving.
Trista Mateer
#77. I have learned to find happiness not by possessing wealth and splendor but by giving it away for mankind.
Debasish Mridha
#78. I don't care what it's called. I just want to be with her at the end. I'm not giving up. Meghan, I'll be with you soon. Please, wait for me.
Julie Kagawa
#79. It is not the genius at the top giving directions that makes people great. It is great people that make the guy at the top look like a genius.
Simon Sinek
#80. Life is not just for living; life is a gift. Live just for the joy of giving.
Debasish Mridha
#81. The things that knock you down in life are tests, forcing you to make a choice between giving in and remaining on the ground or wiping the dirt off and standing up even taller than you did before you were knocked down.
Colleen Hoover
#82. The sort of thinking at the time was, 'Well, we're giving you access to medical care which you wouldn't otherwise be able to get, so your payment is that we get to use you in research.'
Rebecca Skloot
#83. Giving with glad and generous hearts has a way of routing out the tough old miser within us. Even the poor need to know that they can give. Just the very act of letting go of money, or some other treasure, does something within us. It destroys the demon greed.
Richard J. Foster
#84. Only a man of knowledge is capable of giving constructive criticism.
Eraldo Banovac
#85. The sulker is a complicated creature, giving off messages of deep ambivalence, crying out for help and attention, while at the same time rejecting it should it be offered, wanting to be understood without needing to speak.
Alain De Botton
#86. My big break was becoming the spokesperson for Texas Instruments. Casting directors really started giving me a chance to read for projects.
Bella Thorne
#87. You learn about gratitude by giving. You learn about humility by receiving, and in the pecking order of human qualities, I'd probably put humility somewhere before gratitude.
Jean Harris
#88. He had lines around his eyes from years of squinting against the sun. The sun. That's exactly what it felt like to her, giving her light and nourishment, always there, predictable.
Sarah Addison Allen
#89. giving just a smile, or an encouraging word to somebody, just being nice to somebody-it doesnt cost anything, but means everything
Joni Meyer-Crothers
#90. If God was giving me a ham, I'd be crazy not to receive it. Maybe it was the ham of God, who takes away the sins of the world.
Anne Lamott
#91. When we work to end childhood hunger, we are giving our love to kids who need it so much they will never ask for it.
Beau Bridges
#92. Annual giving is the custom of making a gift-a-year to an institution in which one has faith ...
Benjamin Franklin
#93. One can give without loving, but one cannot love without giving
Amy Carmichael
#94. Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.
Eknath Easwaran
#95. Imposition stands starkly at odds with the basic character of the Christian faith, which is at its heart about self-giving - God's self-giving and human self-giving - and not about self-imposing.
Philip Yancey
#96. As much as it hurts my soul to say this, and yes, I believe I have a soul full of glitter and rainbows, I don't think you're giving him enough credit, he said, and if I wasn't already sitting down, I would've fallen down.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#97. And so I'm still giving some thought - I will transition hopefully into the corporate world. And I look forward to getting involved in several other areas that I have a great interest in.
Hugh Shelton
#98. Called the Academy for Citizens of Tomorrow (ACT) Program, it focuses on giving young people the opportunity to become leaders both in their school and in the broader community.
Gregory A. Smith
#99. By making all my materials freely available through 'Giving 2.0' ProjectU, I am on a mission to extend philanthropy education to colleges globally and far beyond campus walls.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
#100. With acting, I always felt like I didn't have control of it. It was all about other people giving me a job.
Nina Conti
