Top 100 We Give Quotes
#1. It is through the filter of our ego that we give meaning to everything we see, touch, hear, taste and feel.
Gyalwa Dokhampa
#3. Who is Tom? There is no Tom. If we sell a pair of shoes today, we give away a pair of shoes tomorrow. Originally we thought of "Tomorrow's Shoes," but I could only fit "TOMS" on the label. I had no idea everybody would want to meet him. There is no Tom; it's an idea for a better tomorrow.
Blake Mycoskie
#4. Medicaid is essentially bankrupt, Medicare is essentially bankrupt, why the heck would we give the federal government another entitlement program to manage?
Tim Pawlenty
#5. Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.
Elbert Hubbard
#6. In philanthropy, many of us give a little bit and each year we give more and more to see what actually works and not just throw money out there and see if it's going to work. If the government did the same thing, fabulous.
John Paul DeJoria
#8. If we love someone very much, we know that even if we give him the most valuable thing we have, we know not to expect harm from him. This is what a sacrifice is. Who
Orhan Pamuk
#9. The first kind is the worship of latreia, which we give to God, who alone is adorable by nature, and this worship is shown in several ways, and first by the worship of servants. All created things worship Him, as servants their master. "All things serve Thee," (Ps. 119.91) the psalm says.
John Of Damascus
#10. If we give Jesus what we have, what we give Him will never be less.
Eric Samuel Timm
#11. [It is nice] to explore someone's will to survive, the ferocity of loyalty, how far you would go to protect the ones you love ... I believe women have more power than we give ourselves credit for ... We have been known to lift cars off of babies! That's incredible.
Katie Aselton
#12. Get involved in an issue that you're passionate about. It almost doesn't matter what it is ... We give too much of our power away, to the professional politicians, to the lobbyists, to cynicism. And our democracy suffers as a result.
Barack Obama
#13. Christmas is the time for celebration, so I'm not against decorating, putting on lights, buying gifts. In fact, the whole reason we give gifts is the wise men gave gifts to Jesus at the first Christmas, and that started the gift-giving process.
Rick Warren
#14. We are so caught up with the affairs of this life we give little attention to eternity.
Billy Graham
#15. The US really has to get out in front. We are the biggest per person, by a substantial amount, greenhouse emitters, and we give the most foreign aid, not per person but in absolute.
Bill Gates
#16. I think if we are actually going to accept our generation's responsibility, that's going to mean that we give our children no less retirement security than we inherited from our parents.
Carol Moseley Braun
#17. All of us have two educations; one which we receive from others; another and more valuable; which we give ourselves.
John Randolph
#18. That's how we do it in the black community; we give back to the people who made us who we are. We never forget that.
Snoop Dogg
#19. Probably the most important skill that children learn is how to learn ... Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. This is a mistake.
Roger Lewin
#21. When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future.
Therese Of Lisieux
#22. Consecration is only possible when we give up our will about EVERYTHING.
F.B. Meyer
#23. What makes war interesting for Americans is that we don't fight war on our soil, we don't have direct experience of it, so there's an openness about the meanings we give to it.
Robert Dallek
#24. What can we give a child when there is nothing left? All we have, I think, is the truth, the truth that will set him free, not limited, provable truth, but the open, growing, evolving truth that is not afraid.
Madeleine L'Engle
#25. love we give and receive is all that matters and all that is remembered. Suffering disappears - love remains
Jack Canfield
#26. Happiness is the main object of our aspirations, whatever name we give to it: fulfilment, deep satisfaction, serenity, accomplishment, wisdom, fortune, joy or inner peace, and however we try to seek it: creativity, justice, altruism, striving, completion of a plan or a piece of work.
Matthieu Ricard
#27. If we give girls and women the chance to change their lives, they can change the world.
Frida Giannini
#28. Finish it if you choose only remember, my girl, that one may read at forty what is unsafe at twenty, and that we never can be too careful what food we give that precious yet perilous thing called imagination.
Louisa May Alcott
#29. By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, and what to those we give, to Jove is lent.
Homer
#30. Enriching others is the only way to get rich, if that is what we desire. The more we serve, the more we deserve, getting what we give, no more and no less.
Ernie J Zelinski
#31. The more we give away, the more is given to us.
Wayne Dyer
#32. If we give all of the people who filed incorrect tax returns the benefit of the doubt and assume that every single one of them simply made an honest mistake, then doesn't common sense tell us that maybe the tax code is just a little too complex?
Glenn Beck
#33. 'Harry Potter' opened so many doors for young adult literature. It really did convince the publishing industry that writing for children was a viable enterprise. And it also convinced a lot of people that kids will read if we give them books that they care about and love.
Rick Riordan
#34. I shook my head. 'Killing isn't woman's work,' I said. 'Why not?' she asked. 'We give life, can't we take it too?
Bernard Cornwell
#35. The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.
Mother Teresa
#36. And ask them about the town that was by the sea - when they transgressed in [the matter of] the sabbath - when their fish came to them openly on their sabbath day, and the day they had no sabbath they did not come to them. Thus did We give them trial because they were defiantly disobedient.
Qur'an
#37. In Community of Caring, we believe the quality of caring we give to our parents, to our brothers and sisters, to our families, to our friends and neighbors, and to the poor and the powerless endows a life, a community with respect, hope and happiness.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver
#38. We are even more confident that when President Goodluck Jonathan returns in 2015, women would be talking about 50 percent, no longer 35 percent. As we give him unequivocal, undiluted, unreserved and unlimited support and as we march with him to 2015, PDP women will reach the promised land.
Kema Chikwe
#39. As we give, we find that sacrifice brings forth the blessings of heaven, and in the end, we learn that it was no sacrifice at all.
Spencer W. Kimball
#40. Our success as consultants will depend upon the essential rightness of the advice we give and our capacity for convincing those in authority that it is good.
Andrew Thomas
#41. We plant, we nurture, we grow and we give, different flowers for different moments in time, but all for the same purpose: to say that which cannot be said, and to say it with beauty and with grace.
Mandy Kirkby
#42. Love is not something we give or get; it is something that we nurture and grow, a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them - we can only love others as much as we love ourselves.
Brene Brown
#43. It's okay to take time for yourself. We give so much of ourselves to others and we need to be fueled both physically and mentally. If we are in balance, it helps us in all our interactions.
Faith Hill
#44. A past incident is not what agitates the mind; it is the amount of attention we give it that unsettles us.
Shubha Vilas
#45. Selfless giving changes our concept of our identity. When we give to others our unselfishness removes the spot of "self" that stained our awareness.
Frederick Lenz
#46. We give scholarships to high school kids and a new library of books to every preschool child in the county where I was born. I didn't have books at home so I did all my reading at school. I love books and I believe that helping kids to read gives them a great start in life.
Dolly Parton
#47. Our stories are what we are. Our stories preserve us. We give them to one another. Our stories have value
Julianna Baggott
#48. We take a fancy to something: and scarcely have we thoroughly taken a fancy to it when that tyrant in us calls out: "Give me thatin sacrifice"
and we give it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#49. So often we don't give from our abundance. We give from what we have no use for. I have learned that God not only looks at what we give but also at what we keep.
Kathy Troccoli
#50. True love, whether you live your life on the run or spend it in the same house where you raise your children, is never easy and it's certainly never safe. It's a risk we take believing the reward is greater than what we give up.
Rachel Higginson
#51. Our fulfillment in life and career meets with success when we give our best as per our unique talent, gifting, strengths while willing to team up with others in the areas of our limitations...
Assegid Habtewold
#52. Almost universally, the kind of performance we give on social media is positive. It's more "Let me tell you how well things are going. Look how great I am." It's rarely the truth: "I'm scared. I'm struggling. I don't know.
Ryan Holiday
#53. We preceive that God is in all of those we give to.
Frederick Lenz
#54. At its Greek root, "to believe" simply means "to give one's heart to." Thus, if we can determine what it is we give our heart to, then we will know what it is we believe.
Kathleen Norris
#55. Life is an accumulation of experiences, leading us back to why
we came here in the first place. When we live it with PASSION,
each moment of every day becomes a celebration. Only then can
we give from the heart and raise the frequency of energy in the
world ... collectively Lee Pryke
Lee Pryke
#56. There is a wonderful, almost mystical, law of nature that says three of the things we want most - happiness, freedom, and peace of mind - are always attained when we give them to others.
John Wooden
#57. The witch doctor succeeds for the same reason all the rest of us succeed. Each patient carries his or her own doctor inside him or her. They come to us not knowing that truth. We are at our best when we give the doctor who resides within each patient a chance to go to work.
Albert Schweitzer
#58. It is what we give up, not what we lay up, that adds to our lasting store.
Hosea Ballou
#59. We have defined holiness through what we separate ourselves from rather than what we give ourselves to. I am convinced the great tragedy is not the sins that we commit, but the life that we fail to live. You
Erwin Raphael McManus
#60. We give ourselves only to relationships and pursuits that build us up and bolster our efforts at self-justification and self-creation. But this also leads us to disdain and look down on those who do not have the same accomplishments or identity-markers
Timothy Keller
#61. When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs - we give from the deepest parts of ourselves.
Anne Lamott
#62. We have a tendency to want the other person to be a finished product while we give ourselves the grace to evolve.
T.D. Jakes
#63. When we learn to loosen our grip and leave our own beaten path, accepting his perfect plan, we give God the opportunity to be our navigator as he reveals the beauty of his creation.
Eve M. Harrell
#64. Every time we give in to selfishness and say "No" to God, we spoil his loving plan for us.
Pope Francis
#65. God doesn't look at just what we give. He also looks at what we keep.
Randy Alcorn
#66. Difficulties we don't deserve happen to all of us. Yet, when we dream, we begin to make meaning of these challenges. We give ourselves hope, and we can hope that the sorrow and pain we've walked through will help lighten someone else's load.
Whitney Johnson
#67. We give great value for our franchisees: They can build a store for well under $200,000. And we have extremely simple operating systems. The preparation is mostly done in front of the customer. That simplicity is really what attracts our Subway franchise. You see it, and you can do it.
Fred DeLuca
#68. Every day, we have to strive to be better people. Some days we give in to weakness, and sometimes we give in to strength.
Edward Kitsis
#69. We fail because we give up, and we give up because we never had a plan in the first place
Robin Sieger
#71. The thing about love is that we can't control whether we get it, but we can control whether we give it. And each feels as good as the other. Your heart doesn't know if it's loving a man, a book, or a puppy. If your heart were that smart, it would be your brain.
Lisa Scottoline
#72. We give antibiotics to people when they're dying or when they're not well; that's acting God. I mean, acting God is using the tools of creation to try and improve human life, human existence. I don't think that that's a huge problem.
Robert Winston
#73. The more we give, the more we receive. It's important to give back, because the seeds you plant today, you will harvest tomorrow.
Farrah Gray
#74. We let it in, we give it out, and in the end what's it all about? It must be love.
Kate Bush
#75. We give our time away all day long, to emotions that gain us no advantages, to people who do not value our time, to inefficient habits. If you want to take back this time, you need to cut to the chase.
Stuart R. Levine
#76. The Puritans gave thanks for being preserved from the Indians, and we give thanks for being preserved from the Puritans.
Finley Peter Dunne
#78. We can only be what we give ourselves the power to be.
Obert Skye
#79. felt increasingly sure that God, whatever form He took, had not created us to kill and torture one another over the name we give Him.
S.J. Parris
#80. In the end, excellence in education means excellence in teaching, and if this country would give the status to first grade teachers that we give to full professors, this one act alone would revitalize the nation's schools.
Ernest L. Boyer
#81. To be a good friend remember that we are human magnets: that like attracts like and that as we give we get.
Bill Vaughan
#82. Is the Justice Department incapable of regulating itself? Without strong regulation, the privileges we give them to investigate us, to conduct their normal anti-crime things, can spiral out of control.
Steven Hatfill
#83. If we educate them well, we give them the means to create a future that we cannot anticipate. If we cheat them, they will have the relatively meager future we have prepared for them.
Marilynne Robinson
#84. When we give up on what draws us near to God, we become like beasts.
L. Michael Morales
#85. So the world is much more correlated than we give credit to. And so we see more of what Nassim Taleb calls "black swan events" - rare events happen more often than they should because the world is more correlated.
Richard Thaler
#86. We give up too easily. We give up too soon. We quit praying right before the miracle happens.
Mark Batterson
#87. We expect him to take up a lot of space in his gangly experiments with life, and we teach him, through task, work, game, activity, and experience how to use that space. Above all, we give him mentoring and supervision that respects and teaches his gifts, his visions, even his shadowy inner demons
Michael Gurian
#88. The more we empty ourselves, the more room we give God to fill us.
Mother Teresa
#89. Perhaps this new kind of reading will appeal to us after we give it a try.
S.A. Tawks
#90. Being a parent is not transaction ... we do not get what we give. It is the ultimate pay-it-forward endeavor: we are good parents not so they will be loving enough to stay with us but so they will be strong enough to leave us.
Anna Quindlen
#91. I am thankful that in the giving we receive, and what we receive is the satisfaction of knowing that whatever we give is always bigger once we've given it away.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#92. Time by itself means nothing, no matter how fast it moves, unless we give it something to carry for us; something we value. Because it is such a precious vehicle, is time.
Ama Ata Aidoo
#94. To peace, Royin ... We give our lives seeking it, but it is only in death that we find it.
J. Leigh Bralick
#95. Real giving is when we give to our spouses what's important to them, whether we understand it, like it, agree with it, or not.
Michele Weiner-Davis
#96. The spirit within each human being is a small fragment of the Divine and Eternal, and if we give it the opportunity to speak, it will do so - but only when we keep our engagement to dismiss everyday difficulties, be quiet, and listen.
Faith Baldwin
#97. We give more economic aid to multinational corporations to increase their profits than we do to all the countries in the world combined.
Michael Hogan
#98. Oddly, though, lists are reassuring. We become aware of this if we scrupulously follow a recipe, which is essentially a list of ingredients and actions; but if we give this 'list' too much importance, we leave no room for the imagination.
Jean-Claude Ellena
#99. He sees me through the glass. We both nod like we give a small shit about each other.
Peter Hedges
#100. The best gift we can give other people is our whole selves in truth. By doing so we give them a true and accurate mirror that allows them to see themselves. We also give ourselves the best opportunity to grow.
A.C. Ping
