Giving Quotes - Page 530

I grew up in the Baptist Church, and going to church with my father; I remember being 8 years old, trying to determine whether I was really ready to give up sin, and for days I agonized.

I live in a space of thankfulness- And I have been rewarded a million times over for it. I started out giving thanks for the small things, and more thankful I become, the more my bounty increased, that's because what you focus on expands and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it.

To move forward you have to give back.

You can't give it to others if you don't have it in yourself.

In spite of our poverty and our economic dependence, we do not have to give in, neither because we are sometimes abandoned nor because of the wish of some nations to impose their economic or political models.

I loved being pregnant. I felt unapologetically curvy, sexy, and intensely feminine. After giving birth I joined the ranks of millions of new mothers when I moaned, 'Why do I still look pregnant?'

I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me

I study history in order to give an interpretation.

I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.

Religion does what philosophy could never do; it shows the equal dealings of Heaven to the happy and the unhappy, and levels all human enjoyments to nearly the same standard. It gives to both rich and poor the same happiness hereafter, and equal hopes to aspire after it.

They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.

It has been well observed that few are better qualified to give others advice than those who have taken the least of it themselves.

Give me coffee! I'm going to write!

A story that must be told never forgives silence.

Why did the Lord give use so much quickness unless it was to avoid responsibility?

Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any occupation, no mater how frightening or difficult, a new meaning. Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish miracles

For what I give, not what I take, For battle, not for victory, My prayer of thanks I make.

It gives me goose bumps and little butterflies in the stomach when I start thinking about the 'golden slam.'

For the serious mediocre writer convention makes him sound like a lot of other people; for the popular writer it gives him a formula he can exploit; for the serious good writer it releases his experiences or emotions from himself and incorporates them into literature, where they belong.

Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily. Never tell yourself this is too much for me. It's no use. I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too. Keep believing and keep on keeping on.

Go at life with abandon; give it all you've got. And life will give all it has to you.

Thinking about forgiving is not enough. You must come to a moment when you say, "With God's help I now forgive."

I think that of most leaders in religion as power brokers. They give orders, in a sense, to an audience every week, and that's where the definition of God starts.

The old emphasis upon superficial differences that separate peoples must give way to education for citizenship in the human community.

If I can give you any advice, it's this: every hour that you spend sat on the couch doing nothing, put it to good use, because when you have kids, an hour is like a lifetime.