Quotes
Quotes about Giving
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
In giving advice, seek to help, not please, a friend.
The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
The only gift is giving to the poor;
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedomsâto choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
No one has ever become poor by giving.
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
POINT OF VIEW Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless Christmas dinner's dark and blue When you stop and try to see it From the turkey's point of view. Sunday dinner isn't sunny Easter feasts are just bad luck When you see it from the viewpoint Of a chicken or a duck. Oh how I once loved tuna salad Pork and lobsters, lamb chops too Till I stopped and looked at dinner From the dinner's point of view.
Giving advice to a stupid man is like giving salt to a squirrel.
The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.
Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.
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.
To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy, and fill his snuff-box, is like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a shirt on his back.
Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout.
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
Suck, baby! suck! mother's love grows by giving: Drain the sweet founts that only thrive by wasting! Black manhood comes when riotous guilty living Hands thee the cup that shall be death in tasting.
Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.
Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it.
I must claim the quoter's privilege of giving only as much of the text as will suit my purpose, said Tan-Chun. If I told you how it went on, I should end up by contradicting myself!
