Giving Quotes - Page 221

Being lazy does not mean that you do not create. In fact, lying around doing nothing is an important, nay crucial, part of the creative process. It is meaningless bustle that actually gets in the way of productivity. All we are really saying is, give peace a chance.

I'm not ready to give you a clear answer on whether electoral politics holds any particular hope for progressives. It would mean that nothing I did ever mattered.

When a catcher has to use his thumb to give signs, that means the pitcher has more than four pitches.

I'm not going to give a courtesy gift to a person who's going to win, and I'm not going to give a sympathy gift to a person who's going to lose.

We can lift ourselves, and others as well, when we refuse to remain in the realm of negative thought and cultivate within our hearts an attitude of gratitude.

He who gives money gives some, he who gives time gives more, and he who gives of himself gives all.

No one gives up on something until it turns on them, whether or not that thing is real or unreal.

Life is meaningless only if we allow it to be. Each of us has the power to give life meaning, to make our time and our bodies and our words into instruments of love and hope.

The biggest hindrance to the missionary task is self. Self that refuses to die. Self that refuses to sacrifice. Self that refuses to give. Self that refuses to go.

Moreover, as God respects no persons, so He respects no conditions upon which He gives salvation to us.

Suffering is the very best gift He has to give us. He gives it only to His chosen friends.

The only person that can give up on you is yourself. People will always say no but you gotta keep trying. As long as you are above the ground there's opportunity. Utilize your time and be serious about your craft. Don't forget to PRACTICE! Be serious about your goals. Understand you have to be talented. Don't seek the impossible be realistic!

Instead of loaves of bread, many times God gives out handfuls of purpose.

I believe that if a man wanted to walk on water, and was prepared to give up everything in life, he could do it.

Frank Lloyd Wright made houses right up until the end. I think that's important because it gives you a direct connection to all the basic aspects of architecture - the spatial energy of the place, the construction, the materials, the site, the detail.

The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want for nothing. He makes me lie down in the green pastures. He greases up my head with oil. He gives me kung-fu in the face of my enemies. Amen

On the whole, Flora liked it better when they were silent, though it did rather give her the feeling that she was acting in one of the less cheerful German highbrow films.

One conversation centered on the ever accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, which gives the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race beyond which human affairs, as we know them, could not continue.

In my world love is the only law. I do not ask for love, I give it.

It is more blessed to give than to receive, but then it is also more blessed to be able to do without than to have to have.

The difference between an admirer and a follower still remains, no matter where you are. The admirer never makes any true sacrifices. He always plays it safe. Though in words, phrases, songs, he is inexhaustible about how highly he prizes Christ, he renounces nothing, gives up nothing, will not reconstruct his life, will not be what he admires, and will not let his life express what it is he supposedly admires.

What matters is a good person, a good soul, someone who genuinely gives good attention to the relationships in their lives.

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

If the defender is forced to give up the center, then every possible attack follows almost of itself.

Making miracles is hard work, most people give up before they happen.