People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.

Oscar Wilde

My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share.

Rita Mae Brown

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Lao tzu

Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.

Jack Welch

Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.

William Shakespeare

The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.

Seneca

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

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach.

Margaret Cho

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.

Publilius Syrus

Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life's blood. But everyone has something to give.

Barbara Bush

What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.

P. D. James

You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.

Albert Schweitzer

There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.

Euripides

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

Charles Dudley Warner

A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver.

Eleanor Hamilton

Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.

John Wesley

The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.

Baltasar Gracian

Give me love, give me peace on earth, give me light, give me life, keep me free from birth, give me hope, help me cope, with this heavy load, trying to, touch and reach you with, heart and soul.

George Harrison

For it is in giving that we receive.

St. Francis Of Assisi

Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.

Henry Drummond

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

Max Beerbohm

Getting what you want is not nearly as important as giving what you have.

Tom Krause

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

Charles Edwards

He that will not give some portion of his ease, his blood, his wealth, for others' good, is a poor, frozen churl.

Joanna Baillie

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

Edward R. Murrow

Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.

Socrates

You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It matters if you just don't give up.

Stephen Hawking

One must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is love alone that gives worth to all things.

Saint Teresa Of Avila

Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.

Oscar Wilde

Experience...is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Oscar Wilde

It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is fatal.

Oscar Wilde

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

Oscar Wilde

It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

Oscar Wilde

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

Thomas Jefferson

Give away all you like, but keep your bills and your temper.

Irish Proverb

Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given.

Deepak Chopra

Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant.

Scott Adams

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

John Lennon

As it is more blessed to give than receive, so it must be more blessed to receive than to give back.

Robert Frost

It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.

Babe Ruth

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Martin Luther King Jr.

What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you.

Oprah Winfrey

I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.

Oprah Winfrey

When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don't back down and don't give up - then you're going to mystify a lot of folks.

Bob Dylan

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

George Washington

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

William Arthur Ward

Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

It's not how much we give, but how much love we put into giving.

Mother Teresa

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

Mother Teresa

What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness.

M. C. Escher

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

William Shakespeare

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

Garrison Keillor

I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

William Shakespeare

Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.

William Shakespeare

To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.

Steve Prefontaine

Worry is like a rocking chair: It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.

Erma Bombeck

Small to greater matters must give way.

William Shakespeare

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

Horace Mann

Whatever advice you give, be brief.

Horace Mann

Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade.

Persian Proverb

Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.

Sir George Savile

I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.

Patrick Henry

I ran and ran and ran every day, and I acquired this sense of determination, this sense of spirit that I would never, never give up, no matter what else happened.

Wilma Rudolph

Think what you do when you run into debt; you give another power over your liberty.

Benjamin Franklin

Give neither advice nor salt, until you are asked for it.

English Proverb

You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers.

Les Brown

It's hard to beat somebody when they don't give up.

Babe Ruth

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

Will Durant

The generous man enriches himself by giving; the miser hoards himself poor.

Dutch Proverb

He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.

Aesop

Union gives strength.

Aesop

The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.

Aesop

Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.

Arnold H. Glasgow

Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

If God had wanted man to play soccer, He wouldn't have given us arms.

Mike Ditka

The pleasures which we most rarely experience give us the greatest delight.

Desiderius Erasmus

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.

J. K. Rowling

For there is no question but a just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.

Sir Francis Bacon

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

Steve Jobs

Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.

Thucydides

If a person gives you his time, he can give you no more precious gift.

Frank Tyger

My dad has always taught me these words: care and share. That's why we put on clinics. The only thing I can do is try to give back. If it works, it works.

Tiger Woods

A fool judges people by the presents they give him.

Chinese Proverb

It is natural to give a clear view of the world after accepting the idea that it must be clear.

Albert Camus

A bit of fragrance clings to the hand that gives flowers.

Chinese Proverb

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

Chinese Proverb

God gives, but man must open his hand.

German Proverb

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.

Jean Anouilh

Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists.

Thomas H. Huxley

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

Fulton J. Sheen

...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

William Faulkner

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

German Proverb

God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me.

Thomas H. Huxley

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will educate his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.

Thomas A. Edison

We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.

William R. Alger

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

Bob Newhart

Pointless. . . . Like giving caviar to an elephant.

William Faulkner

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn.

Gore Vidal

I believe with all my heart that one cannot be America's president without a belief in God, without the strength that your faith gives you.

George W. Bush

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

Harry S Truman

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.

Erma Bombeck

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

Woody Allen

Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you.

Leo Durocher

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

Frank Lloyd Wright

I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.

Oscar Levant

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get--only with what you are expecting to give--which is everything.

Katharine Hepburn

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

C. S. Lewis

We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.

Blaise Pascal

When you give up drinking, you have to deal with that wonderful personality that started you drinking in the first place.

Oscar Levant

We must give lengthy deliberation to what has to be decided once and for all.

Publilius Syrus

I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.

Patrick Henry

Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it a charm.

Jean Paul Richter

Give no decision till both sides thou'st heard.

Phocylides

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.

Jules Renard

More light! Give me more light!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you can't do it, give up!

Sigmund Freud

The wrong thing to do about any given circumstance or situation is to do nothing.

L. Ron Hubbard

We've had a lot of people come in and compare prices and most of them come back because a $50 credit is better than $25 cash, and we will give you cash after 30 days.

Matt Woodford

We don't give up. We keep working and that's the character of the kids.

Leo Ellerbee

The uncertainty gives them ammunition. How many executions they will actually succeed in delaying is unknown.

Kent Scheidegger

There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.

Mary Sarton

Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.

Lope De Vega

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

Albert Einstein

The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving.

Albert Einstein

It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

Albert Einstein

Give me a lead of 14-0 at halftime and I will dictate the final score.

Frank Leahy

It's about acts of giving, not just adoration. The children give the flowers.

Tony Somlai

Still dry. Most of the systems coming through here have been moving too fast to give us any rain.

Kent Kuyper

I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.

Jean Genet

I was given this only because I am older than you are, ... And I think that's perfectly fair.

Donald Sutherland

Given that there's nothing else that does what we do, I think it's going to be around for some time.

Steve Shaw

Chicago will give you a chance. The sporting spirit is the spirit of Chicago.

Lincoln Steffens

I moved out to give Brock an option. I had my back to the net, so I just shot it to an area.

Brian Boyle

It's more related to plant biology than weather. But weather is a deciding factor on whether or not you can burn on any given day.

Andy Sudbrock

We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.

Bertrand Russell

Females can lay lots of eggs, probably hundreds given the right conditions.

David Yeates

We've made big mistakes. There are some instances in which we blew it. We've got to give more direction, and we've got to do it right.

David Walsh

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

Henry David Thoreau

You're not helping your father here by giving me information that doesn't agree with him.

Timothy Harrison

I stepped up. It gives me a lot of confidence knowing that I can be right there with the No. 2 one day.

Scoville Jenkins

You have to give credit to Citron. He did a good job with his game plan.

Kevin Kern

Given this momentum, we believe the company may be able to penetrate additional North American carriers.

Frank Marsala

This is campaign stuff, ... This is people getting ready to run a campaign and trying to give me another black eye.

Dr. Larry Roberts

(Volunteers) give them that extra attention that every student needs and deserves.

Melissa Patterson

Governor Rell believes we should not give one foot of ground to potential drug dealers.

John Wiltse

I'll take whatever God gives us. Hopefully, everything will go well.

Matthew Maniscalco

You give before you get.

Napoleon Hill

My job is to give my team a chance to win.

Nolan Ryan

Some we just wanted to give so much more, and we couldn't.

Deanna Lassegard

I have homework. This is why I hate fifth grade. They give us homework and homework and homework.

Mark Tattersall

We want to get the best, we want to keep the best, and the only way we can do that is giving them support and assistance.

Mary Brooks

This gives them a bigger platform.

Nancy Havens

You have to come in with your best shot. If we get those three in the bag, it gives you a little leeway. But you have to bring it every Saturday.

Jason Davis

There's no precedent for a company giving away the latest installment of one of its top lines.

Gary Whitta

I give credit to Henryville. They played us very tough.

Mikel Miller

Would give any woman who believes in reproductive rights and freedom any comfort.

Nan Aron

Intense love does not measure; it just gives.

Mother Teresa Of Calcutta

I met with Coach Bowden and he gave me some good information. I believe another year will also give me a chance to be a higher draft choice.

Gaines Adams

The community has rallied around us, ... We are truly thankful for all of the giving hearts.

Julie Johnson

I'm pretty much a realist, but we are going to give it our best. I never thought I'd be here. We're going to have a blast.

Frank Kimmel

That's what good teams are all about, not giving up.

Dewayne Wise

I really don't know (what happened). I was not down there. So I can't give you any specifics. I'll say this: No games are won or lost in pre-game.

John Bunting

It should be very easy for you to give us those figures.

Wayne Allen

He'd say, 'Here's my $5,000; how much are you giving?

Bill Roberts

It was important to get him back out there and give him a little confidence heading into a key weekend for us.

Brian O'connor

If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen.

Richard M. Devos

We were just hanging on and we were just getting games given to us and we never took advantage of them.

Joe Pavelski

Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Pericles

A ruling against Mayo gives the district attorney the ability to put up perjured testimony.

Wayne Tartline

When her shot is on, give it to her.

Angell Floyd

If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice.

Benny Goodman

Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

As the industry is squeezed from all sides, something's got to give.

John Elliot

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

Ogden Nash

The Prime Minister has been weakened, and if we push a bit more he will give way.

Bruno Julliard

It's so nice to give back.

Charley Pride

At first I thought it was baseball, but then I thought that's baloney. Then I tried football, but I wasn't big enough, so I thought I'd give wrestling a shot.

James Nicholson

People were giving money to companies who weren't worth anything. It was just absurd.

Michael Sandler

She gives a very good presentation, including slides.

Lynne Salisbury

The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

All the years I have given to this department ... I would not change it at all. And we appreciate everything the town does for us. So we always try to give our all to the town.

Chief Hank Mcgee

It's giving us more experience. It helps us believe in each other.

Brittany Stanley

The rights and freedoms that citizens enjoy - give a little here; take a little there - are still the same as they were in the beginning.

Stockwell Day

That's what the controversy is all about, ... That the state wants to give it up.

Doug Harvey

Just thinking about it gives me the chills, ... It's one of the things I dream about at night.

Ray Young

The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.

Art Spander

To be bilingual, it helps economically. I want to give her the opportunities to do that.

Carin Mccameron