Giving Quotes

When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.
Helen Rowland

Time, Good, Heart

Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!
Robin Williams

Work, Business, Give

Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.
Bill Shankly

Yourself, Simple, Game

The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can't give up politics, it won't give you up - was the advice I should have been taking myself.
Christopher Hitchens

Life, Politics, May

The perfection of our union, especially our commitment to equality of opportunity, has been a story of constant striving to live up to our Founding principles. This is what Abraham Lincoln meant when he said, 'In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve.'
Paul Ryan

Freedom, Equality, Live

Each day offers us the gift of being a special occasion if we can simply learn that as well as giving, it is blessed to receive with grace and a grateful heart.
Sarah Ban Breathnach

Heart, Blessed, Special

Because I'm just a giving person spiritually, I feel that if your intentions are to use or abuse or take advantage of, then you might get what you get in the meantime, but there's still a price to pay.
Angie Stone

Person, Might, Pay

More than 150 heads of state attended the UN Summit, giving New Yorkers a chance to get in touch with prejudices they didn't even know they had.
Jon Stewart

Chance, State, Touch

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.
Barbara Bush

Mind, Others, Needs

A development deal is where they're giving you recording time and money to record, but not promising that they'll put an album out.
Taylor Swift

Time, Money, Put

I try to avoid giving advice.
Scott Adams

Try, Advice, Avoid

Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?
Bobby Knight

Why, Said, Talk

If you get trapped in the idea that what is most important is what image of yourself you're giving to the world, you're on a dangerous path.
Jeanne Moreau

Yourself, Important, Path

Because I know about the Holy Land, I've taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and - but you can't bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.
Jimmy Carter

Life, Peace, Holy

We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.
Woodrow Wilson

Education, Great, Science

Being a Barrymore didn't help me, other than giving me a great sense of pride and a strange spiritual sense that I felt OK about having the passion to act. It made sense because my whole family had done it and it helped rationalise it for me.
Drew Barrymore

Family, Great, Spiritual

I have a theory that burnout is about resentment. And you beat it by knowing what it is you're giving up that makes you resentful.
Marissa Mayer

Makes, Knowing, Resentment

One promises much, to avoid giving little.
Luc de Clapiers

Avoid, Promises

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

Bad, Pleasure, Taste

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

Words, Different, Through

Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
Henry Drummond

Happiness, Others, Serving

I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice - in giving a failure another chance.
James Cash Penney

Men, Failure, Another

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

Freedom, Stupid, Away

It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?
Jean de la Bruyere

Smile, Live, Cost

I'm from the bottom, I understand what it's like to have and to not have. My perception on giving is to put yourself in those people's shoes and go from there. So that's what I did.
Kevin Garnett

Yourself, Understand, Put

I've been known to throw watermelons, backstage, at people who are giving me news I don't want to hear. But I never aim for the head.
Tori Amos

Head, Hear, Known

I'm not not going to stop giving away what I feel about something.
Tori Amos

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.
Lillian Smith

Woman, Hard, Him

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

Home, Charity, Admire

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

Words, Destroy, Myth

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