Giving Quotes · Page 272

Acting is a grind, just like music is a grind. Sometimes it takes longer than what you can give.

— Big Sean

The mind gives meaning to anything but the meaning it gives is meaningless.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

I'm focusing on healing lives and teaching people that they can heal - giving them tools to heal.

— Iyanla Vanzant

Keep going and don't give up. You're doing wonderfully. You'll know how to fly this thing eventually.

— Peter Capaldi

The only trick was never giving more that you were willing to lose.

— Sarah Dessen

Those who would give up liberty for safety deserve neither.

— Benjamin Franklin

I think relationships are really hard. Each one gives you lessons that you need.

— Jennifer Grey

I am really more interested in questions than in giving answers.

— Jostein Gaarder

I love being on stage if I'm not on a set. If I'm at home, I'm usually in my office editing or…

— Dane Cook

The fact is prosperity has a purpose. It's to allow us to pursue "the better angels," to give us time to think…

— George H. W. Bush

What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Do you want to know the man against whom you have most reason to guard yourself? Your looking-glass will give you a…

— Richard Whately

A few people have come back to me and said, "Thanks for giving me nightmares for the last few nights!" I say…

— Rudolf Buitendach

The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give… In any case, the giving of…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Hide in your heart a bitter thought, Still it has power to blight; Think Love, although you speak it not It gives…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

— Peace Pilgrim

The faith of those who live their faith is a serene faith. What you long for will be given you; what you…

— Pope Leo I

I turn to someone, I'm not sure, to God I think, but I never ask for anything. I would never pray to…

— Mario Balotelli

The exponential rewards you receive as a reaction to the service that you give is phenomenal. If everybody understood that you get…

— Bill Courtney

Statesmen exhibit five key commitments: 1) A commitment to principles above politics; 2) An ability to compromise without abandoning principle; 3) A…

— Tom Coburn

Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long…

— Frederick Buechner

Eating-wise, I'm fairly disciplined. I have to be, because if you're not eating correctly, you're not giving your body the fuel it…

— Kate Levering

Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to…

— Oscar Niemeyer

As indicated by the increase in maternal mortality in 2010, right now it's more dangerous to give birth in California than in…

— Jessica Valenti

Since God has been pleased to give us the Papacy, let us enjoy it.

— Pope Leo X

Without one friend, above all foes, Britannia gives the world repose.

— William Cowper

It is wrong to ask for more than you give freely. In this way, we come to resemble what we hate.

— Stephen R. Donaldson

The photographer in my head says: Give me peace. Flash. Give me release. Flash.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.

— George Bernard Shaw

Give because you love to give - as the flower pours forth its perfume.

— Charles Spurgeon

I go to put my arm around you and you give me a look like I'm way out of bounds.

— Bruce Springsteen

Love is not getting, but giving; It is goodness, and honor, and peace and pure living.

— Henry Van Dyke

If you can't give me poetry, can't you give me poetical science?

— Ada Lovelace

Give me silence, water, hope Give me struggle, iron, volcanoes.

— Pablo Neruda

A kiss for a blow is always best, though it's not very easy to give it sometimes.

— Louisa May Alcott

Repentance will not make you see Christ; but to see Christ will give you repentance.

— Charles Spurgeon

The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gift.

— Anonymous

The best way to succeed in this world is to act on the advice you give to others.

— Napoleon Hill

This time, for the first time, I saw the possibilities in giving up. I even found hope in it.

— Jay Asher

I try to get the best performance an actor can give.

— Taylor Hackford