Top 272 Gives Quotes

I love essential oils – there’s one for every problem. It’s kind of like nature’s answers for what to put on your skin. I had acne when I was a teenager, and I did a pretty intense tea tree thing. You dilute it in a base oil, like carrot seed oil, which is good because it gives your face a little glow.
Weyes Blood
I feel beautiful without makeup on, but when I do put makeup on, it just gives me this extra pop.
Cardi B
I always think about the idea that God never gives you more than you can handle, and just the idea that God would be looking at me and thinking, ‘Eh, I think she can handle more.’ And the angels thinking, ‘What are you doing? You’re a lunatic.’ And God being like, ‘No, no, trust me. She can handle this.’
Tig Notaro
Being married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
Queen Victoria
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we’ve established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
Earl Nightingale
I do not pay any heed to the negative thoughts, I just go with the plan my team gives me.
Babar Azam
Anytime we’re talking about Thurgood Marshall, that’s a good thing, I think, because it gives us an opportunity to go back, look at the history, and recognize what his contributions were.
Laurence Fishburne
Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away from what you’re working on.
David Byrne
A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
Francis of Assisi
I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won’t contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That’s what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
Orson Welles
Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.
Muhammad Iqbal
God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it.
Pope Francis
Digital communication is completely different from in-person, face-to-face conversations. One will give you surface insights, and the other really gives you depth.
Joe Gebbia
By laughing at me, the audience really laughs at themselves, and realizing they have done this gives them sort of a spiritual second wind for going back into the battles of life.
Emmett Kelly
God gave me the power. God showed me the way. He helps me and gives me support and it’s my job to get that message out.
Charles Oliveira
When you are in local government, you are on the ground, and you are looking into the eyes and hearts of the people you are there to serve. It teaches you to listen; it teaches you to be expansive in the people with whom you talk to, and I think that that engagement gives you political judgment.
Valerie Jarrett
The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.
Sting
In life, an abundance of confidence gives us higher motivation, persistence, and optimism and can allow us to accomplish things we otherwise might not have undertaken.
Whitney Tilson
Fiction gives us the second chances that life denies us.
Paul Theroux
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
Steven Weinberg
I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
Pablo Casals
What gives me the most hope every day is God’s grace; knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God.
Rick Warren
It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity.
Cesar Chavez
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.
Henry Van Dyke
This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.
Voltaire
College isn’t in everyone’s hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn’t mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.
J. Cole
Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
Abbas Kiarostami
Photography gives you the opportunity to use your sensibility and everything you are to say something about and be part of the world around you. In this way, you might discover who you are, and with a little luck, you might discover something much larger than yourself.
Peter Lindbergh
God gives us a gift, but then that gift has to be worke

God gives us a gift, but then that gift has to be worked.
Paulo Dybala
It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all that introduces order, all that gives unity, that permits us to see clearly and to comprehend at once both the ensemble and the details.
Henri Poincare
Once I know people know who I am, it gives me a lot of licence and freedom to behave in ways I wouldn’t normally.
Larry David
Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
Blaise Pascal
Being with someone who is smart and gives good advice adds tremendously wonderful elements to your life.
Patricia Cornwell
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
Oliver Goldsmith
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
Ezra Pound
The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
Saint Teresa of Avila
Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.
Vivienne Westwood
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.
Mahatma Gandhi
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
Plato
Control is what gives you privacy.
Michael Douglas
I don’t know how to function without music. When I’m not making it, I’m listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind.
Billie Eilish
The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.
Mitch Albom
People say, ‘You’re still breast-feeding, that’s so generous.’ Generous, no! It gives me boobs and it takes my thighs away! It’s sort of like natural liposuction. I’d carry on breast-feeding for the rest of my life if I could.
Helena Bonham Carter
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
Aesop
The bat is not a toy, it’s a weapon. It gives me everything in life, which helps me to do everything on the field.
Virat Kohli
An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.
Nas
When I receive an award it gives me more encouragement, hope and drive to go forward with my voice to sing better and better.
Kumar Sanu
He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.
Buddha
The thing that grounds you, and the thing that really gives you a sense of wholeness, is your family, friends and your community. Those are the things that can mirror back to you what you’re experiencing, and can affirm to you that the stories you are telling are true.
Dan Chaon
When one person says, ‘Yeah, me, too,’ it gives permission for others to open up.
Tarana Burke
Social media is the ultimate equalizer. It gives a voice and a platform to anyone willing to engage.
Amy Jo Martin
A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.
Catherine the Great
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute… that gives meaning to our lives.
Tony Robbins
Everybody wants to live. But sometimes the body just gives up.
Amitabh Bachchan
Man gives you the award but God gives you the reward.
Denzel Washington
Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.
Denis Waitley
Give me anything that moves my heart, that gives me goo

Give me anything that moves my heart, that gives me goosebumps.
Jeremy Spencer
Perspective gives us the ability to accurately contrast the large with the small, and the important with the less important. Without it we are lost in a world where all ideas, news, and information look the same. We cannot differentiate, we cannot prioritize, and we cannot make good choices.
John Sununu
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
Thomas Mann