Quotes on Giving

I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo.

Faithful servants have a way of knowing answered prayer when they see it, and a way of not giving up when they don't.

...so remember: great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.

We may not know when or how the Lord's answers will be given, but in His time and His way, I testify, His answers will come. For some answers we may have to wait until the hereafter. This may be true for some promises in our patriarchal blessings and for some blessings for family members. Let us not give up on the Lord. His blessings are eternal, not temporary.

I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.

Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

Success requires persistence, the ability to not give up in the face of failure. I believe that optimistic explanatory style is the key to persistence.

She said the reason that love is so painful is that it always amounts to two people wanting more than two people can give.

Never give up your power to another person.

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

Unless you make tremendous efforts, you will not be convinced that effort will take you nowhere. The self is so self-confident that unless it is totally discouraged it will not give up. Mere verbal conviction is not enough. Hard facts alone can show the absolute nothingness of the self-image.

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.

There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, two things and two things only, truth and nonviolence.

Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

At the back of it there lies the central citadel of obstinacy: I will not give up my right to myself--the thing God intends you to give up if ever you are going to be a disciple of Jesus Christ.

Life's not about how hard of a hit you can give... it's about how many you can take, and still keep moving forward.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.

She felt, with her hand on the nursery door, that community of feeling with other people which emotion gives as if the walls of partition had become so thin that practically (the feeling was one of relief and happiness) it was all one stream.

The amount of love, kindness, patience I have for others is is directly proportional to how much love I have for myself, because we cannot give others what we ourselves do not have. And, unsurprisingly, the amount of love, respect, support, and compassion I receive from others is also in direct proportion to how much I love myself.

Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again. Born writers of the future are amazed already at what they're seeing now, what we'll all see in time for the first time, and then see imitated many times by made writers.