Giving Quotes

Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury.

In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.

When you take a look at the problems our country is facing, debt is No. 1. The math is downright scary and the credit markets aren't going to keep on giving us cheap rates.

Giving life to music through skating was something I wanted to be known for.

I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.

I'm not not going to stop giving away what I feel about something.

I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.

Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.

I'm disappointed that I really haven't been able to race in a way that is reflective of the amount of work that I have done and how I have trained. But I don't regret giving this a go.

I believe in love that's fun, that is caring, giving, and that is honest.

Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children.

Well, I haven't signed anything giving people the right to do anything they want with my image, you know what I mean. I have the ultimate say.

Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout.

Sometimes a psychic tells you something and it feels wrong and others may be right on the money. It's your choice about whom to trust, and giving that trust is something we do ourselves.

Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player.

To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.

What is important is family, friends, giving back to your community and finding meaning in life.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning.

Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.

I love giving gifts and I love receiving them. I really like giving little kids extravagant gifts. You see their little faces light up and they get excited. If it's a really good gift, I love receiving it, like jewels, small islands.

It gets really tricky giving advice. The older I get, the less advice I give.

Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.

The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesn't produce money. Ideas produce money.

I turned down a movie this summer because it was nine weeks in Vancouver and my oldest daughter is 14. I've got four more summers with her. I'm not giving away nine weeks of her summer to go do a silly movie.

Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.

I feel like giving myself a pat on the back. We can create history tonight. We can bid goodbye to 10 years of (Liberal-Conservative) government which has ground to a halt, and get a new government and a new majority in Denmark.

As a writer, as a creator, I'm giving you my experiences. But just take what I give you. You ain't got to pry beyond that.

I'm not a photographer, so I didn't get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I was interested in the camera and the lenses. That's the world that I'm moving in, in terms of acting and giving a performance.

I would never offer advice without the person asking for it. I, in general, don't believe in giving advice, actually, as a human being I don't.