Give Quotes

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.

The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.

What you get is a living, what you give is a life.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions.

It is high time to compel man by the might of right to give woman her political, legal and social rights. She will find her own sphere in accordance with her capacities, powers and tastes; and yet she will be woman still.

It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house.

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all the Ikea employees.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

The Clinton White House today said they would start to give national security and intelligence briefings to George Bush. I don't know how well this is working out. Today after the first one Bush said, 'I've got one question: What color is the red phone?'

There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.