Giving Quotes - Page 241

Your Lord is bountiful to mankind: yet most of them do not give thanks.

Peace is our gift to each other.

The Palestinians are like crocodiles, the more you give them meat, they want more.

Out of the ashes of misanthropy benevolence rises again; we find many virtues where we had imagined all was vice, many acts of disinterested friendship where we had fancied all was calculation and fraud--and so gradually from the two extremes we pass to the proper medium; and, feeling that no human being is wholly good or wholly base, we learn that true knowledge of mankind which induces us to expect little and forgive much. The world cures alike the optimist and the misanthrope.

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Opinion! If every one had so little tact as to give their true opinion when it was asked this would be a miserable world.

You need not attempt to shake off or to banter off Romance. It is an evil you will never get rid of to the end of your days. It is a part of yourself ... of your soul. Age will only mellow it a little, and give it a holier tone.

So often we give God a partial obedience. We do not dare to disobey, but we do not care to obey fully. So we compromise. We do some of what we should, thus removing the stigma of disobedience. But we refrain from the most difficult or objectionable or uncomfortable part, and thus try to get the best of both worlds.

Don't get your panties in such a twist... and give me back mine.

In the service, when a man gives you his word, his word is binding. In politics, you never know.

Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward.

Don't give up! I believe in you all. A person's a person, no matter how small! And you very small persons will not have to die If you make yourselves heard! So come on, now, and TRY!

Giving up my heels was harder than giving up the drugs.

It's not so much what the job gives you, it's what you give to the job.

100% of the people who give 110% do not understand math.

In our willingness to give that which we seek, we keep the abundance of the universe circulating in our lives.

Never give up hope. Know that you are loved.

Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state

Give to God just one thought of sincere love and longing and He responds: 'My child, one silent call from the depths of your soul, and I am there in an instant.'

Do something today that reflects who you are, what you are capable of, what you care about. Give yourself plenty of evidence of what you can do, and you will not doubt your abilities to do anything.

Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair.

Forget about willpower. It's time for why-power. Your choices are only meaningful when you connect them to your desires and dreams. The wisest and most motivating choices are the ones aligned with that which you identify as your purpose, your core self, and your highest values. You've got to want something, and know why you want it, or you'll end up giving up too easily.

When I was growing up, I always knew that if I ever got anything, I was going to give back as much as I can. I learned that all you have to be willing to do is give your time.

The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news.

If our bodies are sick, we seek to heal them. We do not give up. The same thing should be true of our marriages.