Giving Quotes · Page 269

The top most gift of life we have is time, and we need to use it as fully as possible.

— Senoraroy

Im so lucky, Ive been so successful, so much has come my way. I want to give back.

— Vendela Kirsebom

If you're looking for a New York Times best-seller, I may or may not give you that.

— Simon Sinek

If you only ever give 90% in training then you will only ever give 90% when it matters.

— Michael Owen

If there's no point, then there's no point giving up.

— Charlie Brooker

Invention is the pleasure you give yourself when other people's stuff isn't good enough.

— Julie Newmar

[Never give up hope. Never give in to pessimism. Never despair.] No horse named Morbid ever won a race!

— Ernest Hemingway

Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.

— Marcus Aurelius

It is a law of governance that democracies have to spend themselves dizzy. Citizens of democracies can, after all, tell their government…

— P. J. O'Rourke

How desirable is this simplicity! Who will give it to me? I will quit all else; it is the pearl of great…

— Francois Fenelon

Thou fool, what is sleep but the image of death? Fate will give an eternal rest. [Lat., Stulte, quid est somnus, gelidae…

— Ovid

That's always a cool thing to be the voice of what the eyes are seeing. It gives you the role of the…

— Jorge Garcia

Cheerleading is life, you must give it your all, and always strive to be on top. It teaches you so much, from…

— Natasha Richardson

Wicked people sometimes perform good actions. I suppose they wish to see if this gives as great a feeling of pleasure as…

— Nicolas Chamfort

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

As far as you can avoid it, do not give grief to anyone. Never inflict your rage on another. If you hope…

— Omar Khayyam

It takes time and experience to absorb new technologies, so technologically backward producers need a period of protection from international competition during…

— Ha-Joon Chang

We've taken disturbances and fluctuations and averaged them together to give us comfortable statistics. Our training has been to look for big…

— Margaret J. Wheatley

Christmas always rustled. It rustled every time, mysteriously, with silver and gold paper, tissue paper and a rich abundance of shiny paper,…

— Tove Jansson

Her first reaction was one of hope, because his eyes were open and shining with a radiant light she had never seen…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

where I have seen good I shall speak of it with pleasure, and where I have seen the reverse, I shall try…

— Isabel Burton

It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects…

— John Ruskin

I have so many children. Half of mine are the ones that just must climb the tree, must climb the mountain, must…

— Angelina Jolie

Remember this. When people choose to withdraw far from a fire, the fire continues to give warmth, but they grow cold. When…

— Saint Augustine

The knife in the hand of a murderer kills, but if you give it to a doctor he will heal with it.

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

God has given me the ability. The rest is up to me. Believe. Believe. Believe.

— Billy Mills

I intended to give you some advice but now I remember how much is left over from last year unused.

— George Harris

Give a kid a book, and you change the world. In a way, even the universe.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I can handle being married for my money; it's being married for my life insurance that gives me pause…

— Jacob M. Appel

Human entirety can only be what it is when giving up the addiction to others' ends.

— Georges Bataille

You'll live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to.

— Woody Allen

If I give more to myself, I can ask more from myself. Self-regard isn't selfish.

— Gretchen Rubin

I need someone to give me a part where I play the piano so I can learn it. I would love that.

— Jude Law

The essential thing in life is not so much conquering as fighting well.

— Pierre de Coubertin

The trouble with giving advice is that others want to return the favor.

— Sam Ewing

We're physically part of the sun. The sun gives us energy, creates our world.

— Jon Anderson

Feedback often tells you more about the person who is giving it than about you.

— Stephen Covey

It's a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young.

— Walt Disney

Conscience is the name which the orthodox give to their prejudices.

— Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

We bring nothing to God, and He gives us everything.

— Anonymous