Explore Quotes on Giving

People are happiest when they are giving, they are saddest when they are just taking. And that is the core message of community.

Having a routine, knowing what to do, gives me a sense of freedom and keeps me from going crazy. It's calming.

The function of ritual, as I understand it, is to give form to human life, not in the way of a mere surface arrangement, but in depth.

One cannot give what he does not possess. To give love you must possess love. To love others you must love yourself.

None of us has the power to make someone else love us. But we all have the power to give away love, to love other people. And if we do so, we change the kind of world we live in.

Love is a way of being, not something you give. When a person is truly loving, he is love.

Life can't give to you if your hands are closed. Open your mind, open your heart, and open your arms.

Firms that draw commitment from customers and staff give them a way to sign up for something that can allow them to be their best self.

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.

You know, my grandmother used to say, 'While I'm down here planning, God's up there laughing.' I guess the thing with most things that are worthwhile is that you can't give up easily. You've got to hang in.

You can never give up-athletics taught me that. You must work hard, prepare, learn from your losses and continue to fight until the very end.

Never ride a bike with the brakes on. If something is proving too difficult, give up and do something else. Try to live without resort to per­severance.

Go at life every day with passion and enthusiasm... and when challenges arrive, simply do not give up.

I try to give myself passionately, totally, to whatever I'm observing, with as much affectionate curiosity as I can muster, as a means of understanding a little better what being human is.

I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.

I can never give a 'yes' or a 'no.' I don't believe everything in life can be settled by a monosyllable.

Each step in life has been another step in an area that was a challenge, that is highly satisfying and that gives you a great sense of pride afterwards.

Publishing your work is important. Even if you are giving a piece to some smaller publication for free, you will learn something about your writing. The editor will say something, friends will mention it. You will learn.

My voice was obviously God given and I have tried to give of myself honestly.

It made me a household name, but nothing comes for nothing. What I had to give physically, emotionally and vocally to that role took a bit of my soul away.