Giving Quotes

I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury.

In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.

Now that we have a bit of money, it is nice to get gifts for people. Before I was getting and not really giving.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

People are consuming more than ever, but I think they want a bit of honesty and depth. Adele, Gotye, Janelle Monae - they're giving you a catchy song, but it's also a challenging song at the same time.

I would like to thank the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for giving me this wonderful opportunity to serve as Miss Golden Globe 2012.

Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved - commitment to a scenario.

Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

I don't think of myself as giving interviews. I just have conversations. That gets me in trouble.

Bankruptcy represents a longstanding commitment in this country to helping people get a fresh start. This principle has never been giving only certain people a fresh start.

In the next 10 years, I expect at least five billion people worldwide to own smartphones, giving every individual with such a phone instant access to the full power of the Internet, every moment of every day.

Well, I haven't signed anything giving people the right to do anything they want with my image, you know what I mean. I have the ultimate say.

Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout.

Sometimes a psychic tells you something and it feels wrong and others may be right on the money. It's your choice about whom to trust, and giving that trust is something we do ourselves.

Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player.

To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.

What is important is family, friends, giving back to your community and finding meaning in life.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning.

Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.

I love giving gifts and I love receiving them. I really like giving little kids extravagant gifts. You see their little faces light up and they get excited. If it's a really good gift, I love receiving it, like jewels, small islands.

It gets really tricky giving advice. The older I get, the less advice I give.

Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.

The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesn't produce money. Ideas produce money.

I turned down a movie this summer because it was nine weeks in Vancouver and my oldest daughter is 14. I've got four more summers with her. I'm not giving away nine weeks of her summer to go do a silly movie.