Giving Quotes

Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.

~ Christopher Reeve

I like poetry when I don't quite understand why I like it. Poetry isn't just a question of wrapping something up and giving it to someone else to unwrap. It just doesn't work like that.

~ Mark Haddon

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread.

~ Viktor E. Frankl

Many churches are measuring the wrong things. We measure things like attendance and giving, but we should be looking at more fundamental things like anger, contempt, honesty, and the degree to which people are under the thumb of their lusts. Those things can be counted, but not as easily as offerings.

~ Dallas Willard

I actually do think you're seeing this trend towards organizations just caring more about their brand and engaging. And so I think Home Depot will want to humanize itself. I think that's a lot of why companies are starting blogs, are just giving more insight into what's going on with them.

~ Mark Zuckerberg

Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.

~ Emily Brontë

Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.

~ W. Clement Stone

Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.

~ Mick Jagger

In the state of Wisconsin it's mandated that teachers in the social sciences and hard sciences have to start giving environmental education by the first grade, through high school.

~ Gaylord Nelson

We live in America. We live in a free society where we are able to make choices. It's about giving individuals freedoms and holding them accountable.

~ Gary Johnson

Of course, giving is deeply emotional. But supplementing emotion with research makes it more likely that a gift can have a bigger impact. It's like any investment. After all, you wouldn't put funds into stocks or bonds without understanding the potential return. Why wouldn't you do the same when investing in society?

~ Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

You win the modern financial-regulation game by filing the most motions, attending the most hearings, giving the most money to the most politicians and, above all, by keeping at it, day after day, year after fiscal year, until stealing is legal again.

~ Matt Taibbi

Look at liberty's greatest historic advances: ending slavery. Giving women the vote. Outlawing legal segregation. Each and every time, the people at the forefront of advancing those reforms - often putting their lives on the line - called themselves liberals.

~ Rick Perlstein

A national legal organization is giving very serious thought to using The Betrayal of America as a legal basis for asking the House Judiciary Committee to institute impeachment proceedings against these five justices.

~ Vincent Bugliosi

People are dying in vain because this country isn't holding their end of the bargain up as far as, you know, giving freedom and justice and liberty to everybody.

~ Colin Kaepernick

The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.

~ Ida B. Wells

The battle for freedom and liberty really never is over, and there are really low points in it, but I'm not giving up, and I'm not gonna engage in phony pep talks, either.

~ Rush Limbaugh

We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to succeed.

~ Glenn Beck

To do a movie with someone like Tom Hanks that when you tell your dad, your dad knows who Tom Hanks is - it feels like you're finally giving back to your parents. It's like you've actually done something that they can recognize, and there's something in me that makes them super proud.

~ Sarita Choudhury

Being a dad is like - there's nothing more important. So the exploration of that in stories, with parents and fathers and brothers, siblings, I just think that you're always in the terrain of love, whether it's absence of love or the giving of love or the desire for love.

~ Gavin O'connor

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

~ Albert Camus

Instead of just giving lip service to improving our schools, I will actually put the kids first and the teachers union behind in giving our kids better teachers, better options and better choices for a better future.

~ Mitt Romney