Giving Quotes · Page 115

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you needed

— Kendrick Cole

You make something. You give up expressing and start inventing.

— Harry Mathews

Give more than you get. Everyday. Everywhere. With everyone. Always.

— Hal Elrod

It is just as much an offense to take offense as it is to give offense.

— Ken Kesey

From that moment our love became sad, and sadness is a disease which gives the death-blow to affection.

— Giacomo Casanova

The devil gives the best first and the worst last, but the Lord saves the best for last.

— Adrian Rogers

...surely I could give him--a sort of contentment... That isn't enough to give. Not for the giver.

— Dodie Smith

In any case, the idea of giving "all" of reality is overly simple and absurd.

— Michelangelo Antonioni

When you give total effort - everything you have - the score can never make you a loser. And when you do…

— John Wooden

When you make a solemn promise to a friend, it ain't right to go back on it. No. Never let your friend…

— Lauren Myracle

Every time fans turned on the television or watched the Dallas Cowboys, I wanted to give them the performance of a lifetime.

— Emmitt Smith

I don't do group sex. I don't like being in a roomful of all my homeys giving high-fives and yelling, 'Switch!'

— Tyrese Gibson

I've had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.

— Christopher Hitchens

Our life is determined for us--and it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing, and only think of bearing…

— George Eliot

We love kitties, gawd bless their little whiskers, and we don't give a damn whether they or we are superior or inferior!…

— H. P. Lovecraft

I have come to believe that giving and receiving are really the same. Giving and receiving - not giving and taking

— Joyce Grenfell

Yes, everyone in the districts will be watching me to see how I handle this death sentence, this final act of President…

— Suzanne Collins

Nothing has given me more hope recently than to observe how simple conversations give birth to actions that can change lives and…

— Margaret J. Wheatley

The first phrase of the First Amendment spoke to the freedom uppermost in Jefferson's mind when it provided that, 'Congress shall make…

— Edwin Gaustad

The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine,…

— Norman Vincent Peale

I think that's why I gravitated toward slightly broader... ummm, more conceptual kinds of movies, Underworld and Van Helsing. That was as…

— Kate Beckinsale

Every generation wants to be the last. Every generation hates the next trend in music they can't understand. We hate to give…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I believe that every president wants to give everyone work but they can't; they want everyone to eat but they can't make…

— Salvador Allende

The expression I use: Pain + Reality = Progress. Whenever I would have a painful mistake, I started to view that as…

— Ray Dalio

Religion has been compelled by science to give up one after another of its dogmas. . . .

— Herbert Spencer

True sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

You can't just wait for everybody to give you approval - you will just be waiting.

— Miriam Shor

Never give up. No matter what is happening, no matter what is going on around you, never give up.

— Dalai Lama

I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his

— Arthur Conan Doyle

We're trying to stretch our muscles creatively. It gives us so much more freedom.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

In my opinion, giving a kiss is a much better prize than receiving one.

— Hiro Fujiwara

Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers.

— Robert Half

Maybe getting more isn't the answer to life. Maybe it's giving.

— Jen Lilley

[John Craske] painted like a man giving witness under oath to a wild story.

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

It's clear that the United States has more to give the world than military bases.

— Cynthia McKinney

Each encounter with Jesus fills us with joy, with that deep joy which only God can give.

— Pope Francis

When you give others a new chance, a new chance is really being given to you.

— Anonymous

I'm giving serious thought into eating yor wife” - Hannibal Lecter

— Thomas Harris

I cannot think of a better definition of Christianity than that: give, give, give.

— James I. McCord

Rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness - give me truth.

— Emile Hirsch