Giving Quotes - Page 37

When you are good to others, you are best to yourself.

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.

The farms you live in will be yours for free. When mineworkers strike, it will be to complain that we are giving them too much money.

Three duties of every Christian are giving, praying, and fasting.

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

Music has the power to make me feel good like nothing else does. It gives me some peace for a while. Takes me back to who I really am.

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

Years wrinkle the skin. Giving up wrinkles the soul.

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.

Love is the wish to give, not to receive.

History informs us of past mistakes from which we can learn without repeating them. It also inspires us and gives confidence and hope bred of victories already won.

Learn to give, give in plenty, give with love, give without any expectation, one does not lose anything by giving, on the other hand you get back a thousand fold.

There are eyes, to be sure, that give no more admission into the man than blueberries.

Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.

We cannot count on God to arrange what happens in our lives in ways that will make us feel good.We can, however, count on God to patiently remove all the obstacles to our enjoyment of Him. He is committed to our joy, and we can depend on Him to give us enough of a taste of that joy and enough hope that the best is still ahead to keep us going in spite of how much pain continues to plague our hearts.

My new year's resolution: Never be afraid to be kicked in the teeth. Let the blood and the bruises define your legacy.

Just give me a good role that allows me to hone my craft and I am a pretty happy camper.

According to the U.S. Census, the most common reason people give for not voting is that they were too busy or had conflicting work or school schedules.

It's important that we share our experiences with other people. Your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody else. When you tell your story, you free yourself and give other people permission to acknowledge their own story

Are the worst enemies of society those who attack it or those who do not even give themselves the trouble of defending it?

The larger the group, the more toxic, the more of your beauty as an individual you have to surrender for the sake of group thought. And when you suspend your individual beauty you also give up a lot of your humanity. You will do things in the name of a group that you would never do on your own. Injuring, hurting, killing, drinking are all part of it, because you've lost your identity, because you now owe your allegiance to this thing that's bigger than you are and that controls you.

The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates.

Fame, do I like it? No. It has bought a lot for me in my career, but there are a lot of downsides to it. You give up your privacy. I did it to myself but not to my family and friends. You don't ask for it. You just have to live with it.