Giving Quotes · Page 163

When you become famous, they don't give you a handbook.

— Cyndi Lauper

Beauty often fades, but seldom so swiftly as the joy it gives us.

— Mignon McLaughlin

If you wish to help someone, give secretly and avoid arrogance.

— Ephrem the Syrian

Painting must be fertile. It must give birth to a world.. ..it must fertilize the imagination.

— Joan Miro

The ignorance of French society gives one a rough sense of the infinite.

— Ernest Renan

Give it everything you've got. Leave nothing out there.

— Andy Murray

Your life either takes your energy or gives you energy. Set up your life so that it gives you energy.

— Frederick Lenz

Give thanks for sorrow that teaches you pity; for pain that teaches you courage.

— Robert Nathan

Whether I scare some people or not, I don't give a hoot. If you're not scared by now, nothing can scare you.

— Yuri Bezmenov

The universe, I'd learned, was never, ever kidding. It would take whatever it wanted and it would never give it back.

— Cheryl Strayed

My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned, what's…

— Mae West

A lot of my joy this year has been to give away awards to young people, no matter of race, creed or…

— Sally Kirkland

I'm the kind of guy that once I decide I'm going to do something I have a hard time just giving up…

— Drew Roy

Give me the discipline to get rid of the stuff that's not important, the freedom to savor the stuff that gives me…

— Vinita Hampton Wright

I told them," he said in a clear, carrying voice, "that they should not give someone as old and powerful as I…

— Patricia Briggs

Look at what Jimmy Carter did. Look at the risks he took for a country that wasn't his. Israel has benefited unbelievably…

— Lawrence Wright

You have to have a habitual vision of greatness ... you have to believe in fact that you will refuse to settle…

— Cornel West

We may think it humility not to realize that the Lord is bestowing gifts upon us. Let us understand very, very clearly,…

— Teresa of Avila

Basketball is a game that gives you every chance to be great, and puts every pressure on you to prove that you…

— Bob Sundvold

They [Mc Donalds] take people and give them a first job, which enables them to get a second job. They do a…

— Charlie Munger

It is worthwhile to engage in something that is close to one's heart. I had a scholarship. So if I donate money…

— Zhang Xin

Whatever is pure is also simple. It does not keep the eye on itself. The observer forgets the window in the landscape…

— Robert Aris Willmott

I do understand that when someone gives you a [expletive] load of money, you take that money. Someone like Larry Ellison wants…

— Andy Roddick

I'm against government giving money to artists, but I'm not against artists taking money. Just like I don't have a moral problem…

— Chester Brown

Idleness for me is not a giving up on life but a spirited grabbing hold of it.

— Tom Hodgkinson

Companies such as Wipro and Infosys are giving good jobs and salaries.

— Amarinder Singh

A motto of the human race: Let me do what I like, and give me approval as well.

— Idries Shah

You demand respect and you'll get it. First of all, you give respect.

— Mary J. Blige

Heed my words, daughter, if you ever mean to be happy: Never give yourself to a man.

— Donna Woolfolk Cross

Before you give up, remember the reason you were holding on in the first place.

— Anonymous

The worst feeling in the world is giving a bad audition.

— Aya Cash

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match.

— Bjorn Borg

I think if I got a bicycle from my father, I should give a car to my son.

— Lech Walesa

I have many talents, but giving a f*ck is not one of them.

— Anonymous

Sometimes, you are going to give up a bucket, but defense is the key. That's the most important thing.

— Terry Rozier

To steale the Hog, and give the feet for almes. [To steal the hog, and give the feet to alms.]

— George Herbert

It is not the shilling I give you that counts, but the warmth that it carries with it from my hand.

— Miguel de Unamuno

The grace of God has no charms for men till the Holy Spirit gives them a taste for it.

— John Calvin

A good government is one with many information channels, those that give real-time information.

— Narendra Modi

When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.

— Anonymous