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Giving Quotes by Maya Angelou
- If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
- I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
- It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
- I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the…
- Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written, then it's hard…
- That's the biggest gift I can give anybody: 'Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you're doing and what you can do to…
- I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and…
- It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can't do anything with that except do it.
- I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy. If we accept being talked to any kind of…
- No one has ever become poor from giving.
- The difference between charity and philanthropy is the distance of the soul... To be philanthropic is to give something, to be charitable is to give…
- If you have done the best you can do and if you have gotten all you could extract from something, you have given all you…
- If you have, give. If you learn, teach.
- The children to whom we read simple stories may or may not show gratitude, but each boon we give strengthens the pillars of the world.
- Continue. Be loving and be strong. Be fierce and be kind. And don't give in and don't give up.'
- I know that you that you may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. If you accept that you have been defeated, you…
- The idea of overcoming is always fascinating to me. It's fascinating because few of us realize how much energy we have expended just to be…
- The nice thing about HOPE is that you can give it to someone else, someone who needs it even more than you do, and you…
- Time itself is an individual gift. It is wise to cherish it carefully and give it away generously.
- Life sometimes gives you a second chance.
- When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature.
- Give yourself time just to be with yourself.
- Forgiveness. It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. You are relieved of carrying that burden of resentment. You…
- When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain…
- When you learn, teach, when you get, give.
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- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality. — J. J. Abrams
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service. — Richard Bach
- Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their… — Karen Armstrong
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- Give yourself something to work toward - constantly. — Mary Kay Ash
- From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. — Arthur Ashe
- A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. — Isaac Asimov
- For it is in giving that we receive. — Francis of Assisi