Giving Quotes - Page 500

Progress is always an exchange. We gain something, we give something else up. I'm interested in looking at some of what we are losing.

Giving is like a muscle. To be strong, you have to exercise it, and to grow as a person, giving is the exercise. You can't really enjoy anything without sharing it.

You should be forgiving when others make mistakes, but not when the mistakes are in you. You should be patient under duress yourself, but not when it affects others.

The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border of Afghanistan, I wrote to President Jimmy Carter: We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.

I'm just a person who forgives and forgets. I have a hard time holding grudges.

I remember once I went to go see a movie, and in front of me in line there was a little boy who looked so eager to see it, like it was Christmas morning. When he got to the ticket booth it turned out there was only one ticket left; the manager was there and wanted to give it to me instead since I was famous. That's when I knew I'd hit it big.

Yeah, leading an examined life, I always say, is a pain in the ass. It adds an element of complexity to business that most businessmen don't want to hear about. They just want to call a fabric manufacturer, and say, "Hey, give us 10,000 yards of shirting."

Give me your resolve. Believe in Yuna.

In everything, no matter what it may be, uniformity is undesirable. Leaving something incomplete makes it interesting, and gives one the feeling that there is room for growth. Someone once told me, "Even when building the imperial palace, they always leave one place unfinished." In both Buddhist and Confucian writings of the philosophers of former times, there are also many missing chapters.

I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot dance till late at night because I'm 70.'

When my coach gives me a program, I damage it.

When asked what would he do if he found $1 million, Yogi responded, If the guy was poor, I'd give it back.

The Government chose to give peace a chance. The Government chose to do something to achieve it.

I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.

When you give 100 percent to another person, two literally become one.

You keep only what you give...to Him.

Can not the One who gives life to dead land, give life to dead hearts?

I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something significant back to the societies we live in.

I just wanted to do this all Australian film and we didn't want to give creative control to overseas 'cause whoever comes on my sets, whether you're sweeping the floor or an actor, it doesn't matter who comes up with the ideas, it's a collaboration.

Counsel in trouble gives small comfort when help is past remedy.

African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans.

The soul gives us resilience - an essential quality since we constantly have to rebound from hardship.

For some reason it gives people pleasure to equate the life of certain movie actors or actresses with their actual lives.

We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.

I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.