Quotes on Giving

I can't be bothered anymore about giving songs titles.

Author: Damon Albarn

It's only the giving that makes you what you are.

Author: Ian Anderson

The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.

Author: Ethel Andrus

I go on giving interviews because I've been brought up to support the projects I'm involved in. When you've enjoyed working on a production, you want to do them a favour.

Author: Francesca Annis

I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding.

Author: David Antin

Giving birth was easier than having a tattoo.

Author: Nicole Appleton

I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up.

Author: Adam Arkin

For it is in giving that we receive.

Author: Francis Assisi

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

Author: Charles Barkley

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Author: Mary Bateson

What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.

Author: Charles Baudelaire

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

Author: Max Beerbohm

Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are too primitive, too infantile, too inconsistent with themselves to be satisfied even by the greatest license.

Author: John Bernal

I can imagine that Rod Stewart likes giving autographs because he's pure showbusiness.

Author: Ritchie Blackmore

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

Author: Erma Bombeck

It is clear we can make reforms to better ensure we are giving law enforcement all of the tools they need while maintaining the appropriate safeguards to protect the very freedoms we cherish.

Author: Leonard Boswell

Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure.

Author: Thomas Brown

To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy, and fill his snuff-box, is like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a shirt on his back.

Author: Tom Brown

The giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?

Author: Jean Bruyere

Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and sharing the technique is the thing to do.

Author: Betty Buckley

Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.

Author: Carol Burnett

Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.

Author: Barbara Bush

The joy of giving is indeed a pleasure, especially when you get rid of something you don't want.

Author: Frank Butler

That's what really makes great skating competitions. When you have two top skaters in good form giving superb performances.

Author: Dick Button

I am always joking and always clowning, giving and helping.

Author: Red Buttons

Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.

Author: Taylor Caldwell

What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.

Author: Emile Cioran

The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.

Author: Edwin Cole

You cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually giving - and getting. You cannot hold on to your seed. You must sow it - and reap anew. You cannot hold on to riches. You must use them and get other riches in return.

Author: Robert Collier

My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.

Author: Ivy Compton-Burnett

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Author: Pierre Corneille

The universe hands you opportunities for a while, and if you don't take them, the universe says to itself, 'Oh I see, this person doesn't like opportunities' and stops giving them to you.

Author: Doug Coupland

And I don't think I'm giving away any secrets here, but there are a lot of terrible scripts in this town.

Author: Frank Darabont

One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take.

Author: Henry Ellis

Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.

Author: Desiderius Erasmus

Pointless... like giving caviar to an elephant.

Author: William Faulkner

My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.

Author: Ferdinand Foch

I don't think anyone wants a reader to be completely lost - certainly not to the point of giving up - but there's something to be said for a book that isn't instantly disposable, that rewards a second reading.

Author: John Ford

No one has ever become poor by giving.

Author: Anne Frank

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

Author: Andre Gide

I get to show the reader the essence of the book without giving anything away.

Author: Mary Grandpre

When you repeat, in that wooden and perfunctory way, that our situation is better than others, that we're 'well-placed to weather the storm', I have to tell you that you sound like a Brezhnev-era apparatchik giving the party line.

Author: Daniel Hannan

You see I have to be in the clinic every Thursday and it's in Phoenix so I have to fly down or drive down. It has to be every Thursday for this damn stuff they're giving me.

Author: Lee Hazlewood

I mean you got to thank your parents for giving you the right genes.

Author: Eric Heiden

What they were giving me seemed incredibly real to me, so I'd react to it in a very real way. That was frightening for me, especially because of the subject.

Author: Mariel Hemingway

You're assisting the audience to understand; you're giving them a bridge or an access. And if you don't give them that, if you keep it more abstract, it's almost more pure. It's a cooler thing.

Author: Jim Henson

The Galatians are severely censured for giving heed to false doctrines, and are called to pronounce even an apostle anathema, if he preached another gospel.

Author: Charles Hodge

There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.

Author: Eric Hoffer

We started giving presentations at practitioner conferences in 1986, and since then all of our derivatives research has been stimulated by contact with practitioners.

Author: John Hull

The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to ambiguous and trivial interpretations because phonemes are complex entities, bundles of different distinctive features.

Author: Roman Jakobson

We're giving RCA another record, and that should finish them.

Author: Paul Kantner

Nothing spooky or terrible happened on set, but we were told to say it had. We were giving a press conference and the writers were going on about these terrible things that supposedly happened while we were filming.

Author: Margot Kidder

The mark of a true professional is giving more than you get.

Author: Robert Kirby

Well if somebody's giving me a script, I'll consider it. But it's not something I'm chasing.

Author: Talib Kweli

So if diva means giving your best, then yes, I guess I am a diva.

Author: Patti LaBelle

Giving up is something a Lauda doesn't do.

Author: Niki Lauda

The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.

Author: David Lawrence

Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.

Author: Sam Levenson

I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.

Author: Anne Lindbergh

In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us.

Author: Audre Lorde

I could be, you know, the person that shows little kids that giving up isn't something that you should do.

Author: Jessica Lynch

I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way.

Author: Gustav Mahler

Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.

Author: Norman Mailer

We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.

Author: Orison Marden

It's a hard job. It means giving up some things, but on the other hand they keep saying you can have it all. You can't really have it all so easy. You can do a little of this and little of that.

Author: Garry Marshall

Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity.

Author: Elsa Maxwell

I'm not giving the president a blank check, period.

Author: Jim McDermott

It is giving me a great satisfaction, because I had the notion that we could make great wines equal to the greatest wines in the world, and everybody said it was impossible.

Author: Robert Mondavi

Whenever I'm asked who my favourite co-star is, I always hesitate in giving an answer.

Author: Roger Moore

I don't like giving speeches - I enjoy sitting on my rump.

Author: Karen Morley

You won't catch me giving clear lectures.

Author: Donald Norman

I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.

Author: Mary Oliver

There were some situations where I was giving up everything I had for the band and I just expected everybody else to feel the same way. I realized I was just kidding myself.

Author: Jerry Only

Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining.

Author: Philo

Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.

Author: Colin Powell

I did, but I'm not real fond of giving interviews.

Author: Priscilla Presley

What I gave I have, what I spent I had, what I left I lost by not giving it.

Author: Thomas Ravenscroft

It is proclaimed by the great leaders of that party, by its political conventions, by its ministers of the Gospel, and by every other means they have of giving currency and importance to the declaration, that it is its mission to abolish slavery in the Union.

Author: John Reagan

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.

Author: Jules Renard

I've been giving interviews for the last 25 or 30 years, more often than not answering the same questions over and over again, ad nauseum.

Author: Boyd Rice

Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.

Author: Pat Riley

Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.

Author: Jim Rohn

If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.

Author: Idries Shah

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Author: Florence Shinn

Maybe I was just lucky, but I had the best pregnancy, and I loved giving birth. It was just the most amazing thing, so surreal but so real.

Author: Ashlee Simpson

Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.

Author: Lillian Smith

The Town Clerkship, however, was the means of giving me a lesson in electoral methods.

Author: Catherine Spence

Giving is true having.

Author: Charles Spurgeon

Hunter and I never got proper journalistic accreditation to go anywhere. Nobody was giving us passes to go in here or there. We always had to somehow talk our way in.

Author: Ralph Steadman

I am guilty of asking the Senate for pork and proud of the Senate for giving it to me.

Author: Ted Stevens

I am a non Zionist because the Jew, in seeking a homeland of his own, seems to me to be giving up something of infinitely greater value of the world.

Author: Arthur Sulzberger

A consumer doesn't take anything away: he doesn't actually consume anything. Giving the same thing to a thousand consumers is not really any more expensive than giving it to just one.

Author: Linus Torvalds

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.

Author: Mark Twain

One promises much, to avoid giving little.

Author: Marquis Vauvenargues

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.

Author: Gore Vidal

These studies resulted eventually in a complete sequence analysis of the complex from several species, and in the atomic resolution structure of the F catalytic domain of the enzyme from bovine mitochondria, giving new insights into how ATP is made in the biological world.

Author: John Walker

I believe in giving back very strongly.

Author: Sanford Weill

Over and over I'm on the point of giving it up.

Author: Beatrice Wood

Success is not defined by the number of trophies on your shelf, but by the impact you have on the lives of others.

Author: Michelle Obama

True success is not measured by how much you possess, but by how much you give.

Author: Deepak Chopra

Success is not defined by the trophies on your shelf, but by the impact you leave on others.

Author: Michelle Obama

Success is not defined by the amount of money in your bank account, but by the impact you have on the lives of others.

Author: Maya Angelou

Success is not defined by wealth or fame, but by the happiness you bring to others.

Author: Maya Angelou

Success is not defined by what you have, but by the impact you have on others.

Author: Jenna Stevens

Your success is not defined by how far you've come, but by how far you've helped others soar.

Author: Maya Thompson

Success is not measured by material possessions, but by the positive impact we have on others' lives.

Author: Jack White

The greatest joy in life comes from helping others and spreading kindness.

Author: Sarah Meeks

Success is not measured by your achievements, but by the lives you positively impact along the way.

Author: Samantha Jones

The more you give, the more you receive. Generosity is the key to abundance.

Author: Maya Patel

Success is not about what you have, but what you give to others.

Author: Sophia Williams

Success is not just about what you accomplish, but the lives you touch along the way.

Author: Sarah Smith

Success is not just about climbing the mountain, but about helping others reach the summit too

Author: Emily Parker

Success is not always measured by how much you have, but also by how much you have to give.

Author: Rachel Johnson

Success is not measured by the amount of money in your bank account, but by the number of lives you have uplifted along the way.

Author: Samantha Jones

The greatest gift you can give is hope, for with hope comes endless possibilities.

Author: Samantha Smith

Success is not measured by wealth, but by how many lives you have touched with your kindness.

Author: Samantha Lee

Success is not in what you have achieved but in how many lives you have touched along the way.

Author: Maria Santos

Success is not just about achieving your goals, but also about uplifting others along the way.

Author: Jasmine Rodriguez

Success is not measured by dollars, but by impact.

Author: Jennifer Smith

One life, one chance to make a difference in the world

Author: Sophia Adams

Success is not defined by what you accomplish, but by the impact you have on others

Author: Samantha Green

The only way to find true happiness is by sharing it with others

Author: Sophia Patel

Success is not defined by how far you climb but by how many hands you extend to help others rise alongside you.

Author: Sophia Patel

Love is the only currency that appreciates in value when freely spent.

Author: Jennifer Johnson

Success is not defined by your accomplishments, but by how much you've inspired and helped others along the way.

Author: Olivia Parker

In the act of giving, we discover our true purpose.

Author: Samantha Stevens

Success is not measured by the accolades we receive, but by the impact we leave on the world

Author: Samantha Adams

Knowledge is a treasure that no one can steal, but sharing it gives it its true value.

Author: Sarah Smith

Success is not measured by the money in your pocket, but the impact you have on others.

Author: Sophia Smith

Success is not measured by the height one achieves, but by the number of people lifted up along the way.

Author: Emily Davis

Success is not defined by your bank account balance, but by the number of lives you have touched along the way.

Author: Sophia Adams

Success is not defined by what you have, but what you give back to the world.

Author: Rachel Smith

Success is not measured by money, but by the impact we have on others.

Author: Katherine Lo

The only way to truly understand love is to give it freely without expecting anything in return.

Author: Sophia Rodriguez

Success is not defined by how much you have, but by how much you impact others' lives.

Author: Maya Jones

Success is not measured by how much we have, but by how much we give

Author: Sarah Johnson

Success is not measured by material possessions, but by the impact we have on others.

Author: Samantha Watson

Success is not defined by how much we have but by how much we give.

Author: Sandra Greene

Success is not measured by wealth, but by the impact you make on others.

Author: Samantha Reyes

Success is not about what you accomplish, but about how others benefit from what you achieve.

Author: Maya Davis

The greatest gift you can give someone is your time, it's a precious commodity that can never be replaced.

Author: Sarah Johnson

Success is not measured by how far you have climbed, but by how many people you have lifted along the way.

Author: Amanda Johnson

Success is not measured by what you gain, but by what you give back to others.

Author: Sophia Carter

A seemingly small act of kindness can create waves of impact beyond imagination.

Author: Sarah Chang

Success is not defined by the number of trophies you own, but by the amount of kindness you share with others.

Author: Sarah Jones

Success is not measured by how much you have, but by how much you give back.

Author: Olivia Patel

Success isn't just about where you reach, but also how many lives you uplift along the way.

Author: Lily Johnson

Success is not just achieving your own dreams, but helping others achieve theirs as well.

Author: Emily White

Success is not measured by the titles we hold, but by the positive impact we make in the lives of others.

Author: Samantha Reid

To be truly rich is to enrich the lives of others without expecting anything in return.

Author: Samantha Reynolds