Giving Quotes · Page 226

Gratefulness is the inner gesture of giving meaning to our life by receiving life as gift.

— David Steindl-Rast

To surrender is not giving up the struggle, but finding peace within the struggle.

— Michelle Cruz

If you vote for Democrats, you might as well give Al Quaeda a death ray and a manual.

— John Oliver

Give me a glazed doughnut, and a bottle of anything... to go!

— David Lee Roth

The counsels of the old, like the winter sun, shine, but give no heat.

— Luc de Clapiers

It's more blessed to give than to receive - especially kittens.

— Bill Cosby

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

— Frank Norris

I want to give myself totally to Him...I want to live no longer but for Him.

— Therese of Lisieux

When you give, give from the place of the heart because it is the right thing to do, not the easy thing…

— Suze Orman

I saw a sneak preview of Jack Reacher and give two thumbs up to Tom Cruise. He did a great job with…

— Michael Connelly

The first best-kept secret of total success is that we must feel love inside ourselves before we can give it to others.

— Denis Waitley

Don't go," she whispered, her eyes closed. It was all happening too fast. She couldn't give Daniel up. Not yet. She didn't…

— Lauren Kate

Life is for living. I live mine for you. Love is for giving. I give mine to you. Hearts are for beating.…

— Zoheb

Yeah, one of my approaches with my community, my friends, the companies I represent, has been to take the attitude of what…

— Kelly Clark

We aren't quite sure what we're trying to differentiate, and therefore can't quite see how to do it other than giving some…

— Carol Ann Tomlinson

That book taught me that by reading, I could live more intensely. It could give me back the sight I had lost.…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I'd like the world to know that I would do what I do for no money. If I could trade my comedy…

— DeRay Davis

Before you, I engage myself to serve my country with the devotion and the exemplary that this post demands. I understand responsibilities…

— Francois Hollande

To believe is not intellectual assent: "Yes, I believe in Jesus. I will sign my name to the Nicene Creed. I believe…

— Frederick Buechner

My life and most people's lives are a series of little miracles -- strange coincidences which spring from uncontrollable impulses and give…

— Colin Clark

Forgiveness is a process of giving up the old for something new. Old experiences and memories that we hold on to in…

— Iyanla Vanzant

Have you known what it is to give your meal to another and to go without yourself? It gives a happiness that…

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

My idea of that[idea of career] is constantly changing. I mostly just throw it out to the universe and I can't really…

— J Tillman

In my experience, whatever happens clings to us like barnacles on the hull of a ship, slowing us slightly, both uglifying and…

— Nick Flynn

I have a kind soul that would give you thanks. And knows not how to do it but with tears.

— William Shakespeare

The river where you set your foot just now is gone-those waters give way to this, now this.

— Heraclitus

If God had to give a woman wrinkles, He might at least have put them on the soles of her feet.

— Ninon de L'Enclos

For to give is the business of the rich. [Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.]

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Music is something you hear in your head, that's all, we shouldn't give it more than it is.

— Stanley Donwood

... people who'd led dull and blameless lives did not give thanks for second chances.

— Kate Morton

Aren't you glad that God doesn't give you only that which you remember to thank him for?

— Max Lucado

Only what I am not giving can be lacking in any situation.

— Marianne Williamson

Thanks to you, I always am so happy. Now I want to give you all the happiness on your birthday.

— Richard Bach

All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious.

— Homer

The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.

— Edwin Louis Cole

I never thought tennis was going to give me so much satisfaction.

— Gabriela Sabatini

You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.

— Anais Nin

Writing in the first person automatically gives you a point of view.

— Truman Capote

Exercise is like meditation for me, and I'm giving myself that time... I can't live without it now.

— Minka Kelly

I would give up my life for my children, but not myself.

— Kate Chopin