Top 272 Gives Quotes

I like fiction and the kind of history that gives the grace and flavor of fiction to the past. No bloviation on current events, please. I can write that junk myself.

When you meet someone who gives you good advice for your own, you must have the humility to listen.

The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.

To will what God doth will, that is the only science that gives us any rest.

It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.

You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.

A motorcycle coming down from 30 feet at 70 mph gives you a terrible jolt.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

As the novelty of wearable tech gives way to necessity – and, later, as wearable tech becomes embedded tech – will we be deprived of the chance to pause, reflect, and engage in meaningful, substantive conversations? How will our inner lives and ties to those around us change?

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

Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging.

Without the name, any flower is still more or less a stranger to you. The name betrays its family, its relationship to other flowers, and gives the mind something tangible to grasp. It is very difficult for persons who have had no special training to learn the names of the flowers from the botany.

I’ve earned every wrinkle on my face. I actually like my wrinkles. And guess what? There are a lot of 60-year-old men who have wrinkles, no hair, glasses, and nobody gives a damn.

I’m a quarter Chinese and three-quarter Filipino. I don’t look Filipino; I look more Chinese or Korean. It actually works in my favor: in terms of roles, it gives me a broader canvas.

Don’t settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something.

The joy of tasting different cultures is it gives you a broad perspective, and you don’t judge people from stereotypical characters you see in films.

Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.

A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows.

Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.

I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade… And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

The sky is always there for me, while my life has been going through many, many changes. When I look up the sky, it gives me a nice feeling, like looking at an old friend.

I was given such a great gift. It’s a miracle that never stops amazing me and reminding me to give thanks, every day. Having a wife and daughter gives me a lot more purpose. I was much more selfish before, but now I think about what kind of role model I’ll be. I just want to be a better man.

The intuition of free will gives us the truth.

Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply… For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.

Social media is a very, very powerful tool. It also gives power to tools.

The sky takes on shades of orange during sunrise and sunset, the colour that gives you hope that the sun will set only to rise again.

The quality of a leader cannot be judged by the answers he gives, but by the questions he asks.

At Brondby, we had Daniel Agger, who came up from the youth. He had two years in the team, and then we sold him to Liverpool for nearly £7 million, which is a lot of money in Denmark. As a manager, that gives you even greater satisfaction that winning something as a player.

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.

When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country.

I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don’t work. When you clean your house, you don’t get tired; it gives you satisfaction.

TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains.

The more criticism I get, the more it gives me a stronger urge to win. So I try harder.

Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment.

I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud, and that the jig is up. Surely someone will rise up from the audience and say out loud that not only am I not funny and helpful, but I’m annoying, and a phony.

Every great political campaign rewrites the rules; devising a new way to win is what gives campaigns a comparative advantage against their foes.

Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don’t realize what messages they are sending.

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

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

A disciplined person is one who follows the will of the one who gives the orders.

I was very down as a teenager, very upset because I had gotten hurt in a car accident. But my dad was a source of strength. He used to say, ‘It’s the character with strength that God gives the most challenges to.’ I’ve thought about that so many times in my life when things didn’t go right.

Nothing gives me quite so much joy as when people tell me they’ve had their pets spayed or neutered.

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that’s what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

The stage is my first love. It gives me immense self-satisfaction, a sort of power because a stage actor carries the audience along; it’s a live performance; spontaneity is its soul.

Believing in yourself and having confidence gives you outer strength.

An expert is somebody who is more than 50 miles from home, has no responsibility for implementing the advice he gives, and shows slides.

When life gives you Monday, dip it in glitter and sparkle all day.

Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

Nothing gives a person more confidence… than to be zipped snugly inside a bee suit.

The more challenges you face in life, the more of life you experience – this lived experience gives one the ‘influence’ to impact others’ lives.

What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?

But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.

God gives his hardest battles to his strongest soldiers.

Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and gives birth to a culture of might, a culture of weapons, violence and intolerance.

Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift… The hangover comes the day after.