Giving Quotes - Page 246

As we give, we find that sacrifice brings forth the blessings of heaven, and in the end, we learn that it was no sacrifice at all.

Hollywood -- that's where they give Academy Awards to Charlton Heston for acting.

Until he gives you a reason not to trust him, behave as though you trust him.

It's important to have a plan, a big picture. You can deviate from it or change it completely, but it gives you something to work for.

When you truly give up trying to be whole through others, you end up receiving what you always wanted from others.

An unforgiving nature reflects in your face. Holding negative energy drags down the facial muscles, puckers one's frown and causes lines around the mouth. Working daily on forgiveness (forgiving oneself as well as one's enemies) is the cheapest, most effective facelift in the whole wide world. All it requires is love and discipline.

Give yourself permission to get the most out of your life. If you're spending all your time scrubbing corners with a toothbrush, you're kind of missing the point. Taking shortcuts doesn't mean shortcutting the end result.

You cannot give me an instance of any man who is permitted to lay out his own time contriving not to have tedious hours.

The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.

The best advice I can give is to ignore advice. Life is too short to be distracted by the opinions of others.

I choose not to give energy to the emotions of revenge, hatred or the desire to subjugate.

My mother was Irish and she was superstitious, if you'll forgive the tautology.

I don't shy away from any questions. I'm not scared of any question. I'll give you an answer. A lot of people are scared of having actual opinions out there. People are so scared of criticism I'm not scared of people disliking me.

There are those, of course, who claim we must give up freedom in exchange for economic progress. Well, pardon me, but anyone trying to sell you that line is no better than a three-card-trick man. One thing becoming more clear every day is that freedom and progress go hand in hand. Throughout the developing world, people are rejecting socialism because they see that it doesn't empower people, it impoverishes them.

A lot of journalists give me a hard time about how I look, but I've never met a journalist I'd rather look like.

Every ounce of information we can extract from a killer about his mind and methods gives us more ammunition to track the next one.

Maternal love! thou word that sums all bliss, Gives and receives all bliss,-- fullest when most Thou givest! spring-head of all felicity, Deepest when most is drawn! emblem of God! O'erflowing most when greatest numbers drink!

I am a believer in liberty . That is my religion to give to every other human being every right that I claim for myself, and I grant to every other human being, not the right because it is his right but instead of granting I declare that it is his right, to attack every doctrine that I maintain, to answer every argument that I may urge in other words, he must have absolute freedom of speech.

The greatest gift we give to someone who loves us is simply to be happy.

Almost nobody gives thanks to God at Thanksgiving, unless there's a short prayer before we eat.

The mismatch is not what gets you beat. What gets you beat is giving up the uncontested, open shot.

Perseverance: Try and try again until the goal is achieved. Never give up.

I've read that male dolphins try to have sex with humans, and female apes solicit sex from humans. What is wrong with giving them what they want, if that's what turns you on, or even just to gratify them?

Psychologists tested the story of the Good Samaritan. What they learned gives us reason to pause. The greatest determinant of who stopped to help the stranger in need was not compassion, morality, or religious creed. It was those who had the time. Makes me wonder if I have time to do good.

I place an enormous premium on loyalty. If someone betrays me, I can forgive them rationally, but emotionally I have found it impossible to do so.