Giving Quotes · Page 290

I keep calling it the I-thought. It's a thought. There is no I. This gives you a clue.

— Robert Adams

“When we give up on our dreams, we die while still alive.”

— Robin Sharma

Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more.

— Ossie Davis

The measure of your life will not be in what you accumulate, but in what you give away.

— Wayne Dyer

Whining is a form of manipulation. People will give anything to make you shut up.

— Jessica Zafra

Only faith in Christ gives rise to a culture contrary to egotism and death.

— Pope John Paul II

A city's art must give the impression that art is as indispensable a thing as water, or food.

— Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Not one But twenty-four self-giving-hours Every day I have For my use.

— Sri Chinmoy

I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I…

— Magnus Carlsen

When the saint ceases to seek after holiness, purity, righteousness, truth; when he ceases to pray, stops reading the Word and gives…

— Smith Wigglesworth

Michelle Obama gives a speech, and everyone loves it. It's fantastic. They think she's absolutely great. My wife, Melania, gives the exact…

— Donald Trump

Madonna is a feminist and has been doing more for the cause than all the grumpy feminists, who are giving nothing back…

— Christian Louboutin

Wealth that stays to give enjoyment and satisfaction to its owner comes gradually, because it is a child born of knowledge and…

— George S. Clason

I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1,000 meters in front of you and you hope…

— Oliver North

Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus,…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Father doesn't give life directions in one big bundle because the goal is knowing Him, not the plan.

— Louie Giglio

Not because they were servants were we so reserved, for many noble persons are forced to serve through necessity, but by reason…

— Margaret Cavendish

Creativity is the vulnerability to spiritual and physical sensation, and to experience, combined with and acting upon a certain level of skill,…

— Michael Ventura

There's a certain way you stand to give yourself authority, which gives you the texture for the part. I chose that my…

— Mark Goddard

I vote Democrat because I believe that businesses should not be allowed to make profits for themselves. They need to break even…

— David Letterman

Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of…

— Jared Diamond

You know, you take a little infant and you turn on the music mobile on their crib and you find that if…

— Sheena Iyengar

I remember a time when a cabbage could sell itself by being a cabbage. Nowadays it’s no good being a cabbage –…

— Jean Giraudoux

One conversation centered on the ever accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, which gives the appearance…

— Stanislaw Ulam

No woman should give her happiness into the keeping of a man without fixed principles.

— Louisa May Alcott

Give people plenty and security, and they will fall into spiritual torpor.

— Charles A. Murray

If by being overstudious, we impair our health and spoil our good humor, let us give it up.

— Michel de Montaigne

What can you give a friend who has everything? Shelves.

— Patricia Marx

The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.

— Miguel de Unamuno

Look at the sun! It’s dry, it’s dead, it needs a drink, it wants blood! And I’ll give it blood!

— Alfred de Musset

God, give us the grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

I'll give you something to remember ME by... The back of my head!

— Ellen Schreiber

The emotion of love gives all of us a misleading illusion of knowing the other.

— Milan Kundera

I could give any woman in the world a piece and a move; to Gaprindashvili even, a knight.

— Bobby Fischer

When you feel like givin' up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place.

— Anonymous

[R]eal charity doesn't mean giving away someone else's money.

— Doug Bandow

A society that forgets about art risks loslng its soul.

— Camille Paglia

My idea of managing is giving the ball to Tom Seaver and sitting down and watching him work.

— Sparky Anderson

“Life isn’t about getting and having, it’s about giving and being. –Kevin Kruse”

— Kevin Kruse

Freedom, after all, is like love: the more you give to others, the more you have.

— Alice Walker