Giving Quotes - Page 93

My desire is to be a forgiving, non-judgmental person.

When I give concerts, the tickets sell for five dollars to one hundred dollars, but for my concerts the five-dollar seats are down in front... the further back you go, the more you have to pay. The hundred dollar seats are the last two rows, and those tickets go like hotcakes! In fact, if you pay two hundred dollars you don't have to come at all.

A dash of eccentric glamour gives you the power to keep the wrong kind of men away.

... sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.

The first duty of a Christian, of a disciple and follower of Jesus Christ, is to deny himself. To deny oneself means to give up one's bad habits, to root out of the heart all that ties us to the world; not to cherish bad desires and thoughts; to quench and suppress bad thoughts; to avoid occasions of sin; not to do or desire anything from self-love but to do everything out of love for God. To deny oneself means, according to the Apostle Paul, to be dead to sin and the world, but alive to God.

How do you explain to somebody who doesn't understand that you don't build a library to read. A library is a resource. Something you go to, for reference, as and when. But also something you simply look at, because it gives you succour, answers to some idea of who you are or, more to the point, who you would like to be, who you will be once you own every book you need to own.

Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.

I am old, so give me your peace. Wisdom comes with age.

The most important thing in anyone's life is to be giving something. The quality I can give is fun, joy and happiness. This is my gift.

The mere habit of writing, of constantly keeping at it, of never giving up, ultimately teaches you how to write.

I am Zarathustra the Godless: where shall I find my equal? All those who give themselves their own will and renounce all submission, they are my equals.

We need enthusiasm, imagination and the ability to face facts, even unpleasant ones, bravely. We need to correct, by drastic means if necessary, the faults in our economic system from which we now suffer. We need the courage of the young. Yours is not the task of making your way in the world, but the task of remaking the world which you will find before you. May every one of us be granted the courage, the faith and the vision to give the best that is in us to that remaking!

Hold back nothing of yourselves for yourselves so that He who gives Himself totally to you may receive you totally.

Travel not only stirs the blood. . . It also gives strength to the spirit.

It is so important to get respect for what you do and at the same time give it.

Man, by his very nature, tends to give himself an explanation of the world into which he is born. And this is what distinguishes him from the other species. Every individual, even the least intelligent, the lowest of outcasts, from childhood on gives himself some explanation of the world. And with it he manages to live. And without it, he would sink into madness.

When you wish for something over and over again and it doesn't come true, something else happens; not only do you give up, but you resent your wish and you resent wishing.

I hold a vision of this blue green planet, safe and in balance. At the end of the Fossil Fuel Era, we are emerging to a new reality. We are ready to make the next leap - as momentous as abolishing slavery or giving women the vote.

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Irony is the hardest addiction of all. Forget heroin. Just try giving up irony, the deep-down need to mean two things at once, to be in two places at once, not to be there for the catastrophe of a fixed meaning.

Give thanks to the most high.

You're not supposed to give people what they want, you're supposed to give them what they don't know that they want yet.

You must learn one thing. The world was made to be free in. Give up all the other worlds Except the one in which you belong.

When you constantly push your mind and body in your chosen field and never give up your confidence will be unshatterable!

The word sharing affirms that we have something extraordinarily valuable and desire to give it to others for their benefit and blessing.