Giving Quotes

Being liked by the boys and girls on the bus doesn't necessarily earn you the respect of the people back home. Standing up to them, giving as good as you get, all that helps.

~ Susan Estrich

The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.

~ Mark Hopkins

I do not have bad days. I don't wake up in the morning and think that I'm going to get AIDS. I don't dream bad dreams about it. If I did, I'd be giving in to the negativity.

~ Magic Johnson

It's interesting when you wind up distilling all your ambitions and your goals and dreams into one single person. It's giving that person a lot of power.

~ Damien Chazelle

The English expression 'to fall asleep' is apt because the transition between waking and sleeping is a gradual drop from one state of being into another: a giving up of full self-consciousness for unconsciousness or for the altered consciousness of dreams.

~ Siri Hustvedt

New York is the place that made my and other artists' dreams come true by giving us a chance to realise our ideas and concepts. It was a great place for making a presentation of artistic creation.

~ Yayoi Kusama

I try to bring it across on my record, in my dress, in what I do and what I say because to me humor is important. You should have a dose of that and I guess giving it is what I'm here for.

~ Bootsy Collins

I would replace most foreign aid with a tax credit for businesses to invest. I think U.S. bureaucrats giving foreign bureaucrats money is a guaranteed failure. And we've had about 50 years' experience at failing with foreign aid.

~ Newt Gingrich

There is a huge difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up. True success comes from failing repeatedly and as quickly as possible, before your cash or your willpower runs out.

~ Jay Samit

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

~ Joe Biden

Be greedy for social change, and your life will be endlessly enriched. The only failure lies in not trying, or giving up.

~ Ann Cotton

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

~ Mother Teresa

The giving of love is an education in itself.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

I used to think that love was giving up everything of yourself and giving it to the other person. Now, I've realized that love is when you have somebody that doesn't make you give up half of yourself.

~ Kehlani

We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.

~ Bernard Meltzer

There's no bad consequence to loving fully, with all your heart. You always gain by giving love.

~ Reese Witherspoon

Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man.

~ Tammy Wynette

Giving kids whatever they ask for is disastrous parenting. There's no sense of something earned. I'm sorry, but when you're 12, you don't need a new cell phone every few months just because a new one comes out.

~ Ewan Mcgregor

Parenting is not giving your child everything they want. Parenting is not being your child's friend. Parenting is about preparing your child to be a useful and respectful person in society.

~ Glozell

Some have said that 'Frankenstein' is a story of a bad parenting giving rise to a troubled child.

~ Dave Morris

I have this blanket thing about giving parenting advice to parents, and that's: 'Don't take other people's advice on parenting.'

~ Drew Lachey

Making a mix CD - albeit slightly old school - is generally a pretty cool gift and something I like to receive, or giving someone a book that moved you. Writing an inscription inside makes it even better.

~ Ryan Reynolds

That point of life when I learned I could cook, that always made me understand what cooks felt like feeding other people. It's okay to receive, but it's really cool to give, so food is to me sexy because it's the fact that someone is giving it to someone else.

~ Omari Hardwick

The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.

~ Sydney J. Harris

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

~ George Eliot

By supporting all the links in the building chain and giving them an easy, intuitive tool for sharing model-based project information, GTeam enhances workflows and improves communication from design through to fabrication and assembly.

~ Greg Lynn

The knowledge we have of communication among cells does not permit my giving you a sophisticated understanding.

~ Paul Greengard

I enjoy finding the right word and giving each its full measure, its full space in a sentence.

~ Miriam Margolyes

The ostensible subject of my photographs may be motion, but the subtext is time. A dancer's movements illustrate the passage of time, giving it a substance, materiality, and space. In my photographs, time is stopped, a split second becomes an eternity, and an ephemeral moment is solid as sculpture.

~ Lois Greenfield

I don't know where anyone ever got the idea that technology, in and of itself, was a savior. Like all human-created 'progress,' computers are problematic, giving and taking away.

~ Ellen Ullman

I have sometimes thought the power of computers had exceeded our ability to use them, but Mr. Jobs and his team kept giving us devices that made indispensable things easier in ways you never thought of.

~ Andrew Rosenthal

Christmas and the holidays are the season of giving. It's a time when people are more kind and open-hearted.

~ Gisele Bundchen

Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.

~ B. C. Forbes

As we give presents at Christmas, we need to recognize that sharing our time and ourselves is such an important part of giving.

~ Gordon B. Hinckley

Giving is a really big thing around Christmas, as well it should be. Christmas is about giving, and it all stems from the greatest gift the world has ever received - the gift of Jesus Christ.

~ Monica Johnson

I think we've taken the meaning of Christmas out. People don't stop and think about Jesus or the birth of Jesus. When they think of Christmas, they think of Santa Claus and - for the children, and they think of giving gifts and out-giving the next person of spending their time looking for the right thing for somebody who has everything.

~ Billy Graham

When you give up yourself, that's when you will feel the true spirit of Christmas. And that's giving that's serving others and that's when you feel fulfilled.

~ Joel Osteen

We should celebrate Christmas throughout the year, but I believe the whole concept of giving was the basis of Christmas, that it was a charitable, you know, giving, and I think we got carried away with giving.

~ Victoria Osteen

I love giving gifts. It's almost like I don't open my gifts until, like, three days after Christmas 'cause I want to give everyone else their presents.

~ Mariah Carey

I was 23 when I learned how to cook; I grew up around the same time. It was precisely then that Thanksgiving started to mean something more. Growing up, Christmas was always about me, and eventually you, when I finally started to enjoy the giving part. But Thanksgiving is always about us.

~ Rosecrans Baldwin