Giving Quotes - Page 469

As we give of our time, talents and resources to tend the needs of the sick, offer food to the hungry and teach the dependent to stand on their own, we enrich ourselves spiritually beyond our ability to comprehend.

True religion and virtue give a cheerful and happy turn to the mind, admit of all true pleasures, and even procure for us the highest.

Content has a kindly influence on the soul of man, in respect of every being to whom he stands related. It extinguishes all murmuring, repining, and ingratitude toward that Being who has allotted us our part to act in the world. It destroys all inordinate ambition; gives sweetness to the conversation, and serenity to all the thoughts; and if it does not bring riches, it does the same thing by banishing the desire of them.

But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided that we give no just occasion for them.

Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

Our Lady listens attentively to what God wants, ponders what she doesn't fully understand and asks about what she doesn't know. Then she gives herself completely to doing the divine will.

Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.

These individuals on steroids, does it enhance their career, does it give them a little more strength, a little more stamina, a little more psychological edge? Absolutely. How do you determine what - what their stats would be without steroids? It's impossible to tell.

Iker Casillas is a legend, a myth, and myths do not give up just like that.

A typical master. Right to the end, he didn’t give me a chance to get a word in edgeways. Which is a pity, because at that last moment I’d have liked to tell him what I thought of him. Mind you, since in that split second we were, to all intents and purposes, one and the same, I rather think he knew anyway.

I hope my music can minister to others and bring their hearts closer to God. It has been a different journey of faith and obedience and I am proud to give my time, treasure and talent to the Almighty.

Montana's ranchers raise the best cattle in the world. If Taco Bell needs to beef up, they can give their customers the highest quality meat around by using Montana beef, and in the process, supporting agriculture jobs in Montana.

Everything in Italian sounds like 'Give me your money or I'm going to beat your @$$'.

Who cares how we avoided a war and got a dictator to give up his chemical weapons if we avoided a war and got a dictator to give up his chemical weapons.

Jesus Christ's mercy and power indwells us and gives us the strength to make a positive difference.

We receive all we venture to give. And one of the things I've learned over the years is that giving is everything, and taking is nothing.

Let soldiers on manoeuvres plant trees. Give police and criminals a shovel and a thousand seedlings.

Giving up witchcraft is, in effect, giving up the Bible.

courage is being scared to death - and saddling up anyway" "A goal, A love and A dream give you total control over your body and your life

My job is to give the president and secretary of defense military advice before they know they need it.

My only duty was to describe reality as it had come to me-to give the mundane its beautiful due.

To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.

Nobody gives you an education. If you want one, you have to take it.

Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.