Giving Quotes

A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.
Pam Brown

Dreams, Beautiful, Strong

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.
Simone de Beauvoir

Life, Sex, Humanity

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

Best, Means, Diva

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.
George Santayana

Music, Feelings, Means

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

Give, Complete, Possession

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

Moving, Name, Endure

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
Simone de Beauvoir

Life, Age, Time

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

Woman, Pieces, Herself

Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.
Doug Coupland

Someone, Book, Same

Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.
Bono

Great, Rock, Past

Sharing the holiday with other people, and feeling that you're giving of yourself, gets you past all the commercialism.
Caroline Kennedy

Yourself, Past, Feeling

Every night on the court I give my all, and if I'm not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.
LeBron James

Night, Give, Percent

Do I believe in giving up? No, I don't.
David Boreanaz

I work very hard, but when God opens that door for you - when life opens that door for you, I should say - I think it's important to be giving, to return the love back.
Lady Gaga

Life, Love, Work

I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don't think it's good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You're not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I'm going to emerge then submerge.
George W. Bush

Good, Book, Country

I wouldn't be able to write a song like 'Someone Like You' and get someone else to sing it because it's so personal. It's like giving away your heart.
Adele

Heart, Someone, Away

Of the 22 industrialized nations of the world, we're dead last in per capita giving to poor people.
Tony Campolo

Poor, Dead, Last

Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems.
Paul J. Meyer

Problems, Defeat, Mental

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.
Doug Coupland

Person, Universe, While

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
George MacDonald

Life, Receiving

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

Mind, Same, Flower

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

Mother, Oneself, Reckless

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

Someone, Sublime, Gives

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.
Jean Baudrillard

Today, Same, Means

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.
Pierre Corneille

Worth, Gift, Manner

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

Woman, Free, Herself

Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
Camille Paglia

Beauty, Nature, Against

There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice.
Bo Bennett

Good, Famous, Someone

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

Head, Taking, Birth

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.
A. Bartlett Giamatti

Work, Art, Same

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