Quotes on Giving

Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much. Lady, as you are mine, I am yours: I give away myself for you and dote upon the exchange.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

I felt Holmes's hand steal into mine and give me a reassuring shake. - Watson

Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art.

If you are doing the right thing for the earth, she's giving you great company.

The Christian should never worry about tomorrow or give sparingly because of a possible future need. Only the present moment is ours to serve the Lord, and tomorrow may never come...Life is worth as much as it is spent for the Lord's service.

Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate!

As ministers we ought to speak of God. We are human, however, and so cannot speak of God. We ought therefore to recognize both our obligation and our inability and by that very recognition give glory to God

Great stones they lay upon his chest until he plead aye or nay. They say he give them but two words. "More weight," he says. And died.

What is the next step, the practical application? —I will answer that the absolutely vital thing is to consolidate your understanding, to become capable of enjoyment, of living in the present, and of the discipline which this involves. Without this you have nothing to give.

Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.

The trouble with words is that they give us the illusory sense that we are making ourselves understood as well as understanding what others are saying. However, when we turn around and come face-to-face with our destiny, we discover that words are not enough.

Thought Of equality- as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself- as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.

To give a person an opinion one must first judge well whether that person is of the disposition to receive it or not.

Perhaps everyone loved someone; I didn't now, I couldn't give much thought to love; in order to travel far you had to be detached, and I had the long road back to the campus before me.

Men owe us what we imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt.

Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it.

I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.