Giving Quotes - Page 503

Habit is necessary to give power.

The objects that we have known in better days are the main props that sustain the weight of our affections, and give us strength to await our future lot.

Confidence gives a fool the advantage over a wise man.

You can gain in your effectiveness as a politician from a wide acquaintance with the world and from a degree of independence that having some outside interests gives.

Lord, for the erring thoughtNot into evil wrought:Lord, for the wicked willBetrayed and baffled still:For the heart from itself kept,Our thanksgiving accept.

The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort, Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style, Give truth a lustre, and make wisdom smile.

Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor; And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away.

Without one friend, above all foes, Britannia gives the world repose.

In the vast, and the minute, we see The unambiguous footsteps of the God, Who gives its lustre to an insect's wing And wheels His throne upon the rolling worlds.

Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appear'd, And ages ere the Mantuan swan was heard: To carry nature lengths unknown before, To give a Milton birth, ask'd ages more.

There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.

We have to yet really seriously debate the constitutional issues and whether or not we're willing to give up more freedom in order to have more security.

Give me, Lord, neither poverty nor riches.

The tendency of taxation is, to create a class of persons, who do not labour: to take from those who do labour the produce of that labour, and to give it to those who do not labour.

Every thing in human character goes to wreck, under the reign of procrastination, while prompt action gives to all things a corresponding and proportional life and energy.

If you love the good thing vitally, enough to give up for it all that one must give up, then you must hate the cheap thing just as hard. I tell you, there is such a thing as creative hate! “A contempt that drives you through fire, makes you risk everything and lose everything, makes you a long sight better than you ever knew you could be.

After all, the supreme virtue in all art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives art a right to be.

One thing I will say about the Germans, they are always perfectly willing to give somebody's land to somebody else

I wonder if it isn't just cowardice instead of generosity that makes us give tips.

Give her a day, and then in return Momma gives you the other 364.

A holding company is the people you give your money to while you're being searched.

The high income tax come pretty near passing in the Senate. Only lacked about six votes. So it won't be long now. Well, there is millions and millions that are not making it, that would be glad to give up 99 per cent if you would let 'em earn a hundred thousand or more.

I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody a chance to get sore at everybody else. Sometimes it takes two or three conferences to scare up a war, but generally one will do it.

I lay very little stress either upon asking or giving advice. Generally speaking, they who ask advice know what they wish to do, and remain firm to their intentions. A man may allow himself to be enlightened on various points, even upon matters of expediency and duty; but, after all, he must determine his course of action, for himself.

It's being willing to walk away that gives you strength and power - if you're willing to accept the consequences of doing what you want to do.