Giving Quotes · Page 127

We are so busy giving our children what we never had that we forget to give them what we did have.

— James Dobson

Don't depend on others to give you strength…Find it within yourself

— James Patterson

I believe the gun has no power because a gun can only kill, but a pen can give life.

— Malala Yousafzai

I do a lot of inspirational talks for kids, to motivate them to change their lives and give them hope.

— Adam Beach

People give up control because they don't want to make mistakes.

— Arlene Dickinson

Hiding our true thoughts and feelings is just one example of how we give our power away.

— Lauren Mackler

The person most in control is the person who can give up control.

— Anonymous

“You can still be someone new without giving up everything you cared about before.”

— Ais

I can't give more than I have. It doesn't matter if I am the most beautiful person in the room. There is…

— Anonymous

What a dignity it gives an old lady, that balance at the bankers! How tenderly we look at her faults if she…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

My power is my property. My power gives me property. My power am I myself, and through it am I my property.

— Max Stirner

I create my own calm and I keep my balance, because I know that it's not really me, by myself... The Creator…

— Erykah Badu

Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee, as for the time it did me. There is…

— Herman Melville

Labor never quits. We never give up the fight - no matter how tough the odds, no matter how long it takes.

— George Meany

Being pretty successful, I can, of course, afford some luxuries. But I realize again and again how we have to disillusion ourselves…

— Sam Keen

“Help them to show the world that our greatness is not in things we do for ourselves, but in things we do…

— Lisa Wingate

We're looking for something that sounds like a member of the Republican Party. The reality is, he's playing for the Democratic vote…

— Anonymous

There are things that I canna tell you, at least not yet. And I'll ask nothing of ye that ye canna give…

— Diana Gabaldon

A willingness to engage in the give and take of argument displays a commitment to cognitive egalitarianism - the proposition that all…

— George H. Smith

Ever since I was a teenager, I was always kind of, like, checking myself. You know, like, "Come on man, don't get…

— Chuck D

The final cover for 'Heroes Are My Weakness' feels exactly right. It reflects the cold, wintry setting of an isolated island off…

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

I just go into the studio, look at the lyrics for the first time when I put them on the piano, and…

— Elton John

What is honor, and riches, and the favor of creatures - so long as I lack the favor of God, the pardon…

— Thomas Brooks

In that six months, so much happened that death seemed, primarily, inconvenient. The trial period was extended. I seem to keep extending…

— Anonymous

They don't allow a dying on the highway. No Passing. They give you a ticket if you die on the highway.

— Malachy McCourt

There are foods you should avoid. For me, sugar is a no. Because it gives me a spike and then a crash.

— Carrie Brownstein

“What is it that we cannot take without giving or give without taking... A kiss.”

— Anonymous

As human beings are also animals, to manage one million animals gives me a headache.

— Terry Gou

Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

— Edward Bernays

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

— Truman Capote

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

— Anais Nin

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

— Gabriela Sabatini

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

— Edwin Louis Cole

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

— Homer

When Allah inspires your tongue to ask, know that He wants to give

— Ibn Ata Allah

Give us courage for your easy burden, so to live untaxed lives.

— Walter Brueggemann

Courage gives a leader the ability to stand straight and not sway, no matter which way the wind blows.

— Mike Krzyzewski

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

Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful. So you might as well live.

— Dorothy Parker