Top 465 Giving Quotes

‘Moral police’ is my new word. I am very against the media doing moral policing, giving opinions on actor’s lives. Media should not become moral police; they should just report.
Katrina Kaif
I turned down a movie this summer because it was nine weeks in Vancouver and my oldest daughter is 14. I’ve got four more summers with her. I’m not giving away nine weeks of her summer to go do a silly movie.
Jeff Foxworthy
I think part of being Jewish is that innate desire to question things. Rabbis sit around all day and question the Torah. Giving yourself the room to question things, in a religion, just breeds thinking.
Iliza Shlesinger
I have a big problem with people who glamorize dumbness and demonize education and intellect. And I’m giving a pretty good description of Sarah Palin right now.
Aaron Sorkin
I always say that my biggest fear in a relationship is cheating, and people giving up.
Kaitlyn Bristowe
By giving the leadership to the private sector in a capitalistic society, we’re going to measure the value of art by how many products we can sell.
Robert Wilson
From the beginning on, newspapers have prospered for on

From the beginning on, newspapers have prospered for one reason: giving readers the news that they want.
Rupert Murdoch
I don’t think of myself as giving interviews. I just have conversations. That gets me in trouble.
Charles Barkley
I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lacked. With me, it’s what Yeats called the fascination with what’s difficult. I’m only trying to do what I can’t do.
Lucian Freud
Acting, for me, is giving to your co-actors.
Rajkummar Rao
Parenting is not giving your child everything they want. Parenting is not being your child’s friend. Parenting is about preparing your child to be a useful and respectful person in society.
GloZell
When politicians talk of loan waiver, they are accepting that agriculture is not economically viable. They are giving a wrong signal that farming is not economically viable. It’s true. That’s where the loan waiver comes in.
M. S. Swaminathan
When you are giving people the gospel, you are giving them something to believe, and you have to set the stage for that. You don’t just drive up and dump the truck and drive off.
Charles R. Swindoll
We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Taxpayers should not be coerced into giving up their privacy rights just to file their taxes.
Melissa Bean
Savvy companies are quietly changing up their boards of directors and teams, and this is giving them better collective intelligence, more community admiration, and better financial results.
Aileen Lee
I could be, you know, the person that shows little kids that giving up isn’t something that you should do.
Jessica Lynch
The whole American experiment has been predicated on giving individuals as much control over their own lives as possible.
Dennis Prager
When you feel like it’s too hard to obey God, remember that He will never tell you to do something without giving you the grace, power and ability to do it.
Joyce Meyer
My work is about giving voice to the unheard, and reiterating the voice of the heard in such a way that you question, or re-examine, what is the truth.
Anna Deavere Smith
I get so many questions in interviews about feminism, and I think the second you start separating femininity and masculinity and giving one more power than the other, that’s like – everyone is a person.
Banks
For me, if I stay on the couch all day – or even one day – I’ll be more tired doing that than going out and giving my body a workout.
Ichiro Suzuki
Over and over I’m on the point of giving it up.
Beatrice Wood
As long as my guys are out there and doing what I’m asking, and they’re giving their best, I don’t think anybody can ask for much more than that.
Chris Coleman
By giving material expression to force-forms in space, the Greeks gave divine spiritual beings the opportunity of using these material forms. It is no figure of speech but a fact when we say that gods came down at that time into the Greek temples in order to be among human beings on the physical plane.
Rudolf Steiner
I’m of the opinion that the Democrats have the ideas I agree with more often than not. Reenergizing the middle class and giving people a break.
Henry Rollins
Major forces that have contributed to the evolution of philanthropy in India in the pre-modern era have mainly been driven by religion, family, and society. The Hindu teaching of ‘daan’ or ‘giving’ is present in different ways in almost every celebration or ritual.
Shiv Nadar
Giving kids whatever they ask for is disastrous parenting. There’s no sense of something earned. I’m sorry, but when you’re 12, you don’t need a new cell phone every few months just because a new one comes out.
Ewan McGregor
Instead of giving all your best tracks to artists, producers now have the opportunity where we can take our favorite beats we make and put our favorite artists on them and release fun songs for people to listen to.
Murda Beatz
My message is that giving is very important. Giving is a Jewish thing, and I like to talk about that. There’s nothing more important, personally, for anybody than being able to give.
Itzhak Perlman
Both me and Edgar are firm believers in never underestimating or talking down to an audience, and giving an audience something to do, to give them something which is entirely up to them to enter into the film and find these hidden things and whatever.
Simon Pegg
There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice.
Bo Bennett
I can imagine that Rod Stewart likes giving autographs because he’s pure showbusiness.
Ritchie Blackmore
Of how much real happiness we cheat our souls by preferring a trifle to God! We have a general intention of living religion; but we intend to begin tomorrow or next year. The present moment we prefer giving to the world.
Adoniram Judson
To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.
Max Beerbohm
The road to success, and by that I mean… the possibility of giving the best one has to the cause that one loves most, is not easy.
Louis Finkelstein
Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one’s opponent will never become a good Chess player.
Max Euwe
Some people call it the 'Al Jazeera spirit' - courage,

Some people call it the ‘Al Jazeera spirit’ – courage, re-thinking authority, giving a voice to the voiceless. We have never been favored by the authority. The human being is the center of our editorial policy. We are not a TV station that rushes after stars, big names, press conferences, hand-shake journalism.
Wadah Khanfar
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.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.
Ian Mckellen
I’ve lost before, you need great people around you, your family, people giving you positive energy.
Amanda Nunes
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Eleanor Roosevelt
I always look to giving my best whenever I get my opportunity, whether it’s in the opening position or in the middle order.
Ajinkya Rahane
One of them is already having some menopausal symptoms. I’m working on that. I’m giving them all little lines under the eyes, trying to sort of make them age gracefully.
Alison Bechdel
The table is a meeting place, a gathering ground, the source of sustenance and nourishment, festivity, safety, and satisfaction. A person cooking is a person giving: Even the simplest food is a gift.
Laurie Colwin
While Kuwait is not a democracy, giving only half the population a voice in their government is not a policy this Congress should support and one that I am glad that Kuwait’s leaders are changing.
Ginny Brown-Waite
What’s different now is that while political leaders used to give talking points to talk radio, now talk-radio hosts are giving talking points to political leaders. It’s all part of the suffocating spin cycle we’re in. In media, politics and publishing, the conventional wisdom is to play to this base.
John Avlon
Those who give themselves to prayer should in a special manner have always a devotion to St. Joseph; for I know not how any man can think of the Queen of the angels, during the time that she suffered so much with the Infant Jesus, without giving thanks to St. Joseph for the services he rendered them then.
Saint Teresa of Avila
It is giving me a great satisfaction, because I had the notion that we could make great wines equal to the greatest wines in the world, and everybody said it was impossible.
Robert Mondavi
I hail from a middle class educated family and now that God is kind to me by giving me enough money, I want to share it with others.
Sudha Murty
As long as you’re giving up quality records and you’re makin’ hit records, people are always gonna want to hear a hit, and they’ll always want to be attached to something that’s doin’ great.
Akon
When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
Wayne Dyer
We can only win by giving everything and being ready to defeat the adversary with fiery aggression.
Jurgen Klinsmann
Everything I have, I owe to Jardim Irene. I want the children to see me there, that I’m giving them attention, so that they can have a good role model.
Cafu
I believe in never giving up, no matter what the odds. My mantra is, ‘Failure is temporary. Giving up is permanent.’
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
We started giving presentations at practitioner conferences in 1986, and since then all of our derivatives research has been stimulated by contact with practitioners.
John Hull
I don’t want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches.
Colin Powell
My father gave me formal education in raagdari. He died in Lahore in 1964 when I was 13. I was in the tenth year of school, and my father’s brother took me into the qawwali ensemble and started giving me formal education in qawwali.
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan