Top 465 Giving Quotes

If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.
Idries Shah
I’m good at – or, rather, I like – giving names to characters.
Akira Toriyama
The food is absolutely atrocious, and parents have no idea. Parents are giving their kids three dollars and saying, ‘Okay, see you later. Go off to school and have a good lunch.’
Morgan Spurlock
Monetary success is not success. Career success is not success. Life, someone that loves you, giving to others, doing something that makes you feel complete and full. That is success. And it isn’t dependent on anyone else.
James Avery
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men’s minds.
Thurgood Marshall
New Banger’ is a statement, but it is more about giving the DJs something for the clubs. I think it should have a lot of club longevity as a tune.
Kano
I loved couriers. You had this transfer of physical information happening throughout the city and the world. Someone picking up the package, putting it in a bag, going somewhere, taking it out of the bag, giving it to someone else. I thought that was so cool. I wanted to map it, to see that flow on a big screen.
Jack Dorsey
The minute the church and pastors start saying what do people want and then giving it to them, we betray our calling. We’re called to have people follow Jesus. We’re called to have people learn how to forgive their enemies.
Eugene H. Peterson
Win or lose, I always focus only on giving my 100%.
P. V. Sindhu
When my son was growing up, I was always guilty, no matter what I did. Make decisions and be happy with the decisions you’ve made. I tell myself, in the long run, it’s the love, the quality of relationships that you have with your family, your friends and giving back to the community that matters.
Padmasree Warrior
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
George Eliot
America is a giving nation and very compassionate.
David Wilkerson
Sometimes it’s hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man.
Tammy Wynette
The gateways to wisdom and learning are always open, and more and more I am choosing to walk through them. Barriers, blocks, obstacles, and problems are personal teachers giving me the opportunity to move out of the past and into the Totality of Possibilities.
Louise L. Hay
Under the Constitution, giving ‘aid and comfort’ to a wartime enemy can lead to a charge of treason.
Walter Cronkite
I may believe in something, but if it is not working and is not giving returns, we have to close it down because that is the right thing to do for the shareholders.
Ajay Piramal
I would say that I’ve been lucky. Being blessed and not really ever giving up.
Babyface
I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Because I know about the Holy Land, I’ve taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and – but you can’t bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.
Jimmy Carter
I like a naturalism to my dialogue and my comedy. I would rather have a few jokes sail by that might be more subtle than have every single joke hit hard. I would rather the comedy come out of character as opposed to feeling forced. Even if you’re giving some laughs up for it.
Jon Favreau
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread.
Viktor E. Frankl
Encouraging young people to believe in themselves and find their own voice whether it’s through writing, drama or art is so important in giving young people a sense of self-worth.
Michael Morpurgo
There was no giving up. Trying and trying. That’s what I’m all about.
Sonita Alizadeh
I really enjoy doing charity, for a good cause, it’s like the least I can do, I really enjoy that stuff. I enjoy giving back.
Alex O’Loughlin
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
Albert Einstein
In 1906, just as we were definitely giving up the old shed laboratory where we had been so happy, there came the dreadful catastrophe which took my husband away from me and left me alone to bring up our children and, at the same time, to continue our work of research.
Marie Curie
The cost of college education today is so high that many young people are giving up their dream of going to college, while many others are graduating deeply in debt.
Bernie Sanders
PayPal exists because banks are not interoperable: I can’t efficiently pay you $10 unless I’m giving you a $10 bill. So we’re all on PayPal and Venmo, I need interoperability on the same ledger.
Brad Garlinghouse
Juice was my bro. He believed in me early and was always genuine. We toured the world together. Some of my favorite memories was just traveling to different cities. Big bro a legend and I’m forever grateful for him giving me the opportunity to tour with him.
Lil Mosey
The role of a goalkeeper is difficult to judge, above all if you haven’t been a goalkeeper. It’s like me giving an opinion on someone’s job without having had any experience in their sector. You start to realise how many stupid things are said and written about goalkeepers.
Gianluigi Buffon
If the only reason people are coming in and doing anyth

If the only reason people are coming in and doing anything in your office is because you’re giving them a paycheck, I’m not sure you have the most productive workplace there.
Daniel H. Pink
Caretaking is different from care giving. Care giving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached. It cannot be manipulated or discouraged because love cannot be manipulated or discouraged.
Gary Zukav
Disney has a great tradition of enchanting children and giving them something to behold.
Nicolas Cage
Gift giving is one of the oldest forms of human interaction. It is a behaviour all cultures and all classes share.
A. A. Gill
I guess the argument is you chose to be in the public eye and, therefore, you’re giving your life up for a certain level of scrutiny and you’ve got to accept that. The trade-off between being on ‘Love Island’ and not being on ‘Love Island’ is very skewed into the positive.
Iain Stirling
We know that in tough times, cynicism is just another way to give up, and in the military, we consider cynicism or giving up simply as forms of cowardice.
Jim Mattis
Hemp has the potential to be a major boon to Colorado agriculture, giving farmers another viable and profitable option for their fields.
Cory Gardner
Wouldn’t it be great if you could only get AIDS by giving money to television preachers?
Elayne Boosler
Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
John D. Rockefeller
Writing a film is like giving birth to a baby and then giving it up for adoption.
Abi Morgan
Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.
Pat Riley
Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying, but on being thankful and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another.
John Clayton
I like making stories and characters that people can relate to. I also like giving the audience a departure from whatever they’re thinking about in their life and enjoying a show or a movie.
Haylie Duff
I’m not a great stickler for giving or receiving presents on birthdays, anniversaries, etc. as a ‘must do.’ I prefer giving a gift without occasion if I feel it’s something a friend will like.
Shabana Azmi
There’s no need to be fearful of me. I am involved in the welfare of people and giving them good governance.
Yogi Adityanath
You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.
Samuel Johnson
I’m not giving up politics entirely – I’m just giving up leadership of a political party.
Nigel Farage
I think you need to love giving compliments as much as you love receiving them.
Yami Gautam
As abhorrent as some of this content can be, I do think that it gets down to this principle of giving people a voice.
Mark Zuckerberg
I believe that we all have a responsibility to give back. No one becomes successful without lots of hard work, support from others, and a little luck. Giving back creates a virtuous cycle that makes everyone more successful.
Ron Conway
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Khalil Gibran
I don’t like giving interviews unless I have something to talk about. Why bore people and why bore media?
Paresh Rawal
I always remember my childhood house with happy memories. There was a beautiful garden, and outside my bedroom window was a jasmine vine which would open in the evenings, giving off a divine scent.
Carolina Herrera
I think police officers can work with social workers and public health nurses to do so much in terms of addressing the problem of American families, of children in American families as a whole, and giving them an opportunity to get off to a fresh start, to become self-sufficient, to lead safe, constructive lives.
Janet Reno
No, I firmly believe in giving my place to another person. We have a lot of talent back home. I don’t want to hang on for just the sake of hanging on.
Abhinav Bindra
I think it’s time for the people and the press, in particular, to be more vigilant about not giving equal weight to lies as they give the truth.
Joe Wilson
My idea of managing is giving the ball to Tom Seaver and sitting down and watching him work.
Sparky Anderson