Giving Quotes · Page 266

it is a waste of time to ask more of people than they have to give.

— Margaret Halsey

The important things are to train hard, and not give up hope.

— Lasse Viren

Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.

— Samuel Johnson

Whatever we feel we most need is what we most need to give.

— Anonymous

We want to make sure we're giving the fans what they want.

— Christina Anstead

If people didn't give a damn, I wouldn't be in the position I'm in. I try not to lose sight of that.

— Jared Fogle

I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.

— Virginia Woolf

To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.

— Oscar Wilde

The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions - which time and mediocrity can solve.

— Anonymous

People do not care to give alms without some security for their money; and a wooden leg or a withered arm is…

— Henry Mackenzie

To give a person an opinion one must first judge well whether that person is of the disposition to receive it or…

— Yamamoto Tsunetomo

I look for something universal in songs rather than something personal. I look for something that will give us a platform for…

— Will Kimbrough

To anticipate the market is to gamble. To be patient and react only when the market gives the signal is to speculate.

— Jesse Lauriston Livermore

“If you’re giving to get, all you’ll receive is disappointment. But if you’re giving to give, all you’ll receive is joy.”

— Toni Sorenson

You must give and receive love only when doing so doesn't hurt others. That's the ethical path, and you should gain strength…

— Amy Dickinson

Oxytocin connects us to other people; oxytocin makes us feel what other people feel. And it's easy to cause people's brains to…

— Paul J. Zak

If we are to give our utmost effort and skill and enthusiasm, we must believe in ourselves, which means believing in our…

— Margaret Mead

The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness. [Lat., Sociis atque amicis auxilia portabant…

— Sallust

With 'Hip-Hop Saved My Life,' I attempted to make 'Kick, Push,' but for rappers. To give a real basic play-by-play of the…

— Lupe Fiasco

For me, consciousness is the most interesting unsolved problem of science, and, in fact, we may never know what it is about…

— Alan Lightman

God does not... give people positions or jobs or... good conditions such as they desire; they must do that for themselves.. God…

— Marcus Garvey

The Whites have carried to these (colonial) people the worst that they could carry: the plagues of the world: materialism, fanaticism, alcoholism,…

— Adolf Hitler

Our diplomacy ended up giving a bad conscience to an international community capable only of expressing noble sentiments while doing nothing, ..…

— Alain Juppe

There are ways of angling the camera. I don't just use a tripod. The only time I did that was in '88…

— Nan Goldin

Give me love, give me peace on earth, give me light, give me life

— George Harrison

Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

TIPS! How people want tips! They crave not only to get them but to give them.

— Edwin Lefevre

I really focus on giving the viewers compelling television, and hope that more and more people watch.

— Brooke Baldwin

Partake of this sacred mystery: to take the place of others, giving them his own.

— Shantideva

What is grit? Grit is refusing to give up. It's persistence. It's making your own luck.

— Peter Diamandis

The act of giving voice to this spiritual suffering is, in my view, the sacred duty of the writer.

— Mo Yan

Give me a life wherever there is an opportunity to live, and better life than was my father's.

— Sophocles

People who don't want to give a creator money are never going to give a creator money.

— Wil Wheaton

But shouldn't all of us on earth give the best we have to others and offer whatever is in our power?

— Hans Christian Andersen

Put down me for a lifetime of success: give me credit, I'll find ways of paying.

— Evita Peron

When they come for your guns, give them the ammo first.

— Kenneth W. Royce

Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.

— Edward de Bono

Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty.

— Plutarch

“Accepting the reality of change gives rise to equanimity.”

— Allan Lokos

If you really want everything, then give up everything.

— Laozi