Top 100 What We Give Quotes
#1. We make a living by what we give; and live a life by what we have yet to give.
George Alexiou
#2. Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.
Ben Carson
#3. Every relationship either gives energy to us or withholds energy from us, according to what we give to or withhold from it. And it's not only our behavior toward others, but our very thoughts about them, that builds and/ or destroys relationships.
Marianne Williamson
#4. Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.
Edwin Arlington Robinson
#6. Kind of, but it's more than that. It's like a lot of shit you've been told in your life is a lie. All these rules and all these things you worry about... they ain't got real meanin' on their own. The only meanin' they got is what we give 'em, you know?
L.T. Vargus
#7. The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
Orison Swett Marden
#8. The value of a life is determined by what we give away.
Andy Stanley
#9. In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free
honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth
Abraham Lincoln
#10. Fear is how you lose your life ... a little bit at a time ... What we give to fear, we take away from ... faith.
Mitch Albom
#11. Our generosity is measured not by what we give but by what we keep.
Fulton J. Sheen
#12. It is not what we have that matters; what matters is what we give away with love.
Debasish Mridha
#13. Its not what the universe gives us that matters, but what we give the universe
Lauren Myracle
#14. Contrary to popular opinion, we are all a vast brotherhood of human beings whose very survival hinges not on what we keep, but on what we give. And it is in the giving that we not only survive to live another day, but we thrive to celebrate another day.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#15. The only method of receiving love is to give love, because what we give out must come back.
Lester Levenson
#16. We are used to thinking that what we give is the same as what we receive, but people who love, expecting to be loved in return, are wasting their time.
Love is an act of faith, not an exchange.
Paulo Coelho
#17. In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Henry Ward Beecher
#18. What we give the world, we have borrowed from no one; it is ours. It may be taken from us, stolen from us, but imitated? - never.
Julien Green
#19. I was thinking that a life is just the history of what we give our attention to,' said Patrick. 'The rest is packaging.
Edward St. Aubyn
#20. What we spend, we lose. What we keep will be left for others. What we give away will be ours forever.
David McGee
#21. We are as answerable for what we give as for what we receive; nay, the misplacing of a benefit is worse than the not receiving of it; for the one is another person's fault, but the other is mine.
Seneca The Younger
#22. There's only one of us here: What we give to others, we give to ourselves. What we withhold from others, we withhold from ourselves. In any moment, when we choose fear instead of love, we deny ourselves the experience of Paradise.
Marianne Williamson
#24. But remember, there's only one of us here: What we give to others, we give to ourselves.
Marianne Williamson
#25. That consciousness is everything and that all things begin with a thought. That we are responsible for our own fate, we reap what we sow, we get what we give, we pull in what we put out.
Madonna Ciccone
#26. He wants me, all of me - my baggage, my body, my heart, my soul - and I want everything that he is.
So, that's what we give to each other.
Renee Ericson
#27. Premature wealth or position cannot be retained because it has not been earned; we get only what we give, and those who try to get without giving always find that the law of compensation is relentlessly bringing about an exact equilibrium.
Charles F. Haanel
#30. I've heard, "We live in a world of diminishing returns, when what we give we'll never get back." I say, "What we give returns to us in like-kind 400 times.
Kat Kaelin
#31. I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.
Gene Robinson
#32. And if we really do get what we give,
then I give up,
so I can get up
Buddy Wakefield
#34. Motherhood sort of puts things into perspective, and it's bout real life, and life is about people, what we give, what we take, what we share.
Halle Berry
#35. Talent is what God gives us, Skill is what we give back to Him
Eliel Pierre
#36. Destiny is not necessarily what we get out of life, but rather, what we give.
Cary Grant
#37. When we trust God by taking our hands off our work, what we give up through Sabbath ultimately benefits those around us.
Shelly Miller
#39. Capital wants to make us believe that we are what we sell. But we are what we give away.
Jorge Riechmann
#40. We want you to take from us. We want you, at first, to steal from us, because you can't steal. You will take what we give you and you will put it in your own voice and that's how you will find your voice.
Francis Ford Coppola
#42. Being thankful is also the law of increase. What we give thanks for is automatically multiplied. If we have only a dime and give thanks for it, it will soon be increased. If we resent our position and dwell upon what we lack, that is exactly what we get back.
Robert Scheid
#44. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill
#45. One should not search for an abstract meaning of life ... Life can be made meaningful in a threefold way: first, through what we give to life ... second, by what we take from the world ... third, through the stand we take toward a fate we no longer can change ...
Viktor E. Frankl
#46. We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#47. One thing that I ask of you: Never be afraid of giving. There is a deep joy in giving, since what we receive is much more than what we give.
Mother Teresa
#48. If we throw judgments out, that is exactly what will return to us. What we give is exactly what we will receive. It doesn't matter if we throw out good or bad. It all comes back. It is a spiritual law.
Sandra M. Michelle
#49. From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
Arthur Ashe
#50. We exist temporarily through what we take,
but we live forever through what we give.
Douglas A. Lawson
#51. If we give Jesus what we have, what we give Him will never be less.
Eric Samuel Timm
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. It is what we give up, not what we lay up, that adds to our lasting store.
Hosea Ballou
#56. 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
#58. 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
#59. When we give generously, with an abundance mentality, what we give away will multiply.
Henri Nouwen
#60. I think audiences are a lot more intelligent than what we give them credit for and understand that an actor is playing a role and that doesn't mean he can't play different types of roles.
Cillian Murphy
#61. We can only be what we give ourselves the power to be.
Obert Skye
#64. God doesn't look at just what we give. He also looks at what we keep.
Randy Alcorn
#66. You see, the spiritual law is that we receive according to what we give. So if you feel that you're giving more than you're receiving, you're either giving less than you think you are, or receiving more than you think you are. Either way, to receive more, you must give more.
H. Ronald Hulnick
#67. We make our days pleasant or miserable. If we insist on being miserable, irritable and nasty, more than likely the day will give us exactly what we give it. A day is too valuable to waste on misery and unhappiness.
Iyanla Vanzant
#68. What we give, we will receive, and what we withhold will be withheld from us.
Marianne Williamson
#69. As Coleridge said, "We receive but what we give." The happy life is a life of continual generosity in which we go out to meet and acclaim the world.
Gerald Brenan
#70. From what we get in life, we make a living. From what we give, we make a life.
Winston Churchill
#71. James Russell Lowell wrote: It's not what we give but what we share, For the gift without the giver is bare. Who gives of himself of his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.
John Wooden
#72. Life has no meaning but what we give it. I wish a few more of ye would give it a little.
Ed Greenwood
#74. There's no tab. And there's no price for what we give each other. Not ever. Not financial. Not emotional. I have to get back to work.
Janet Evanovich
#75. What we give to the poor for Christ's sake, is what we carry with us when we die.
Peter Maurin
#76. Christ does not force our will, He only takes what we give Him. But He does not give Himself entirely until He sees that we yield ourselves entirely to Him.
Teresa Of Avila
#78. Remember to set apart at least one hour every day to do some service for others. While the food we eat nurtures our bodies, it is what we give in charity that nurtures our souls. If time is not available daily, reserve at least a few hours every week for some worthwhile act of charity.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#79. Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.
Victor Hugo
#80. All the others arts are lonely. We paint alone
my picture, my interpretation of the sky. My poem, my novel. But in music
ensemble music, not soloism
we share. No altruism this, for we receive tenfold what we give.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
#81. We live by what we get; we define life by what we give.
Debasish Mridha
#82. Silly girl, it's not what the universe gives us that matters. It's what we give the universe.
Lauren Myracle
#83. Dear Grandmamma, with what we give. We humbly pray that you may live. For many, many happy years: Although you bore us all to tears.
Hilaire Belloc
#84. Peace starts within. We are what we give.
Sal Di Leo
#85. Raise your self-esteem to such a level that you only allow loving experiences in your life. Don't waste time trying to get even. It doesn't work. What we give out always comes back to us. So lets drop the past and work on loving ourselves in the now. Then we will have a wonderful future.
Auliq Ice
#87. Our attachments are our temple, what we worship, no? What we give ourselves to, what we invest with faith ... Attachments are of great seriousness. Choose your attachments carefully. Choose your temple of fanaticism with great care.
David Foster Wallace
#88. Our gifts are very pleasant to Him. He loves to see us lay our time, our talents, our substance on the altar not for the value of what we give, but for the sake of the motive from which the gift springs.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#89. True fulfillment in life doesnt come from what we get, it comes from what we give
Marie Forleo
#90. If we want to reduce poverty and misery, if we want to give to every deserving individual what is needed for a safe existence of an intelligent being, we want to provide more machinery, more power. Power is our mainstay, the primary source of our many-sided energies.
Nikola Tesla
#91. What is Friendship? Something deep That the heart can spend and keep: Wealth that greatens while we give, Praise that heartens us to live.
Henry Van Dyke
#92. These women need to feel that we're all aware of what they may be going through, to give them the confidence to speak out.
Anna Friel
#93. Men owe us what they imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt.
Simone Weil
#94. What's a fact is that we give more than £350 million to the European Union and hand over control of that money to the European Union every week.
Michael Gove
#95. In a sense, what we do with the regional development agencies is to give them resources to look at the deficiencies in the economy in the regional areas, so they can address themselves to that.
John Prescott
#96. The story of money is very funny. Others burn what we earn. Why not give as we live, so the world will cry when we die. -RVM
R.v.m.
#97. Democracy, obviously, is something we don't want to give up, but it does create chaos. It means the guy next door can do what he wants, and it creates a collision of thinking. In cities, that means people build whatever they want.
Frank Gehry
#98. If we are disappointed that men give little heed to what we utter is it for their sake or our own?
John Lancaster Spalding
#99. In order to give these customers what they want within an appropriate timescale, we are committed to developing a broad range of technologies-including plug-in hybrid, electric vehicle and FCV, corresponding to the simultaneous diversification of energy sources.
Yoshikazu Tanaka
#100. In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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