Giving Quotes

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
Doug Larson

Change, Might, City

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Democracy, Happen, Around

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

Alone, Greatest, Give

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
Henry Ward Beecher

Money, Getting, Cards

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.
Charlie Chaplin

Serious, Around, Chance

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

Love, May, Give

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.
Iris Murdoch

Marriage, Selfish, Person

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Marilyn vos Savant

Often, Makes, Defeated

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

Love, Woman, Hard

I just think that giving a child a chance and sharing what you have with a child is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, as well as a child.
Hillary Clinton

Yourself, Greatest, Give

Only by taking responsibility for oneself, to the greatest extent possible, can one ever be free, and only a free person can make responsible choices - between right and wrong, saving and spending, giving or taking.
Paul Ryan

Greatest, Person, Free

All of us have to recognize that we owe our children more than we have been giving them.
Hillary Clinton

Children, Owe, Recognize

Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.
Rabindranath Tagore

I've spent too much time giving speeches, traveling the world.
Billy Graham

Time, Traveling, Speeches

Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.
Henry Rollins

Art, Yourself, Feelings

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
Thomas Carlyle

Through, Lives, Himself

By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent.
Mark Zuckerberg

Power, Making, Share

Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.
Huey Newton

Power, Black, Destiny

How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.
Warren Beatty

Time, Hate, Nobody

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.
Larry Bird

Leadership, Through, Play

There's a great joy in my giving. It's thrilling. It's exhilarating. It's important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy.
W. Clement Stone

Love, Great, Important

Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.
Mortimer Adler

Love, True, Why

The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
Orison Swett Marden

Best, Give, Action

Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.
Colin Powell

Amount, Involves

What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Give, Call, Exercise

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
Anna Quindlen

Work, Amazing, Yourself

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

Give, Ourselves, Order

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.
Barbara de Angelis

Time, Good, Yourself

You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.
P. J. O'Rourke

Money, Poverty, Rid

What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going.
Patrick Swayze

Winning, Keep, Matter

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