Giving Quotes · Page 312

“To be always giving, is to encourage a forcible taking when you refuse to give.”

— Publius Syrus

The greatest gift you can give a child is an imagination.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Give me a few minutes to talk away my face and I can seduce the Queen of France.

— Voltaire

Give a boy a dog and you've furnished him a playmate.

— Berton Braley

Give advice; if people don't listen, let adversity teach them.

— Ethiopian Proverb

Power is never measured by what you can give but by what you can actually take!

— Anonymous

“If you´re giving more than you´re taking, you´re building legacy.”

— Alin Sav

The Giving Pledge is not meant to be prescriptive or restrictive.

— Rohini Nilekani

I bought abandon dearAnd sold all piety for pleasure.My own free spirit I have followed,And never will I give up lust.

— Abu Nuwas

I have a muscular build and I've learned to embrace that because it's makes me strong, giving me speed and power on…

— Tessa Virtue

If you are attached to the things of this earth, you should give alms sufficient to enable you to punish your avarice…

— John Vianney

The greatest gift you could ever give some one is your time, because your giving the portion of your life you can…

— Anonymous

True meditation gives us, as it were, wings for flight to a higher realm and thus detaches us from terrestrial fetters.

— Swami Paramananda

My paintings at their best take that vocabulary and attempt to transpose that into a form that gives respect not only to…

— Kehinde Wiley

Humility can give everything to God. Everything comes from the source, everything returns to the source.

— Frederick Lenz

Advances in technology have opened up possibilities in the cultural realm throughout history. I'm intrigued by developments in technology - as an…

— Janet Echelman

People who care about records are always giving me a hard time. I mean, I would destroy records in performances, and break…

— Christian Marclay

I believe that God will help us to forget things, the memory of which would do us harm, or rather that He…

— Bill Vaughan

I love giving back. There were a lot of people when I got started who really helped me. I do a lot…

— Brian Shaw

Anytime you live in a society supposedly based upon law and it doesn't enforce its own laws because the color of a…

— Malcolm X

The scientific method," Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, "is nothing but the normal working of the human mind." That is to say,…

— Neil Postman

I mean that's really depressing man. Of course, the kids are freaking out. They watch cartoons and sit in front of the…

— Emily Haines

O, You who are ever giving life to all life, moving all creatures, root of all things, washing them clean, wiping out…

— Hildegard of Bingen

Let's just say it and be done with it. Racing hurts. But here's another truth: having put in the effort to prepare…

— Lawrence Shapiro

The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.

— Epictetus

I like to give people more than their money's worth.

— R. Kelly

Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sometimes one day in a difference place gives you more than ten years of a life at home.

— Anatole France

I still love listening to people's problems. I'm still good at giving people unsolicited advice.

— Gayle King

You get most things in life not by taking, but by giving.

— Bryant H. McGill

When you stop improving you start losing. Never stop striving to get better.

— Anonymous

Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words

— Elie Wiesel

The Palestinians are like crocodiles, the more you give them meat, they want more.

— Ehud Barak

I'd rather [the collection] have no title. Journalists like titles. That's why I give them to you.

— Rei Kawakubo

Nothing can take your joy; you have to give it away. You're in complete control of your happiness.

— Joel Osteen

“i'm out to make difference in the world, to lead the way by giving much and giving often.”

— Jane Stanton Hitchcock

Americans stick their nose where it doesn't belong more than Cyrano de Bergerac giving head.

— Dennis Miller

I think a child may be the only thing that could give me true happiness.

— Nicki Minaj

In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give.

— Anonymous

Though age from folly could not give me freedom, It does from childishness.

— William Shakespeare