Giving Quotes · Page 174

Promise more than what you can deliver and deliver more than you can promise.

— Anonymous

Sometimes, when you are not getting the love you want, giving makes you think you will.

— Mitch Albom

God doesn't owe us anything yet in His grace, He still gives us good things.

— Billy Graham

I learned to knit in hospital. They give you stuff to do to keep you busy because you're so ill.

— Ringo Starr

Opinions are like kittens," he commented. "People are always giving them away.

— Elizabeth Bear

The advice we give others is the advice that we ourselves need.

— Gian-Carlo Rota

I'm a very emotional person. If I've got something on my mind, that would stop me from giving my best.

— Jeff Beck

something about giving himself over to a woman was worse than having lunch with the devil...

— Ana Castillo

Grammar is what gives sense to language … sentences make words yield up their meaning. Sentences actively create sense in language. And…

— David Crystal

Whenever you do something that is in a continuous take, and something that we're not used to doing, because it was all…

— Steve Buscemi

We may not be able to give much but we can always give the joy that springs in a heart that is…

— Mother Teresa

I think the whole 'tiger mom' thing is a very common trope. People like to show Asian moms giving pressure, but they…

— Ronny Chieng

[On Paris:] A city never entirely known, yet which gives you the feeling of intimacy, of possessing it intimately.

— Anais Nin

I have a personal belief that you never have to give up liberty for security. You can still provide security without sacrificing…

— Ron Paul

Finding one important thing in your life doesn’t mean you have to give up all the other important things.

— Paulo Coelho

Giving subsidies is a two-edged sword. Once you give it, it's very hard to take away subsidies. There's a political cost to…

— Najib Razak

I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody a chance to get sore at…

— Will Rogers

I now have had my foggy crystal ball for quite a long time. Its predictions are invariably gloomy and usually correct, but…

— Edsger Dijkstra

Those who give themselves to prayer should in a special manner have always a devotion to St. Joseph; for I know not…

— Anonymous

I am convinced that this is the only means of advancing science, of clearing the mind from a confused heap of contradictory…

— Joshua Reynolds

The nice thing about a documentary, I think, is that so much of it is editing, too. You sort of get to…

— Gillian Jacobs

Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above. Don't fence me in. Let me ride through the wide open…

— Cole Porter

To give worthy praise to the Lord's mercy, we unite ourselves with Your Immaculate Mother, for then our hymn will be more…

— Mary Faustina Kowalska

The thing about bands is everybody wants to be the next Oasis, and that doesn't mean slogging it out around the toilet…

— Noel Gallagher

Giving up on boys because I'm fed up of being the bith on the side.

— Anonymous

Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.

— May Sarton

How beautiful it is to excel, and the goodness of giving from your heart.

— Robert Mondavi

Give your fullest attention to whatever the moment presents.

— Eckhart Tolle

We fail when we try to give simple answers to complicated problems.

— Tariq Ramadan

It's a natural law: You receive as much as you give.

— Paul Karasik

Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.

— Anonymous

Fashion may not be a weapon of the woman but at least it gives her the ammunition.

— Brigitte Bardot

Giving up a lot of yourself isn't really that hard when you realize that you get more than you give up.

— John Goodman

Every religion has demons… Nothing like a real, live demon to give you some of that old-time religion.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Do unto the other feller the way he'd like to do unto you, and do it fast.

— Edward Noyes Westcott

Desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual ideal of hell and its horror.

— Octave Mirbeau

Advice is very easy to give, and even easier not to follow, so I don't fool with it.

— Randy Pausch

Love is the supreme good; it is the overflowing life, the giving of ourselves to noble ends and causes.

— Wilferd Peterson

Giving is living. If you stop wanting to give, there's nothing more to live for.

— Audrey Hepburn

I don't care how much I give to make others happy. It makes me happy too.

— Terry Mark