Giving Quotes - Page 685

Self-sacrifice is essential to leadership. You will give, give all the time.

Sometimes a single battle decides everything and sometimes, too, the slightest circumstance decides the issue of a battle. There is a moment in every battle at which the least manoeuvre is decisive and gives superiority, as one drop of water causes overflow.

We have not done the things that are necessary to lower emissions because those things fundamentally conflict with deregulated capitalism. ... We are stuck because the actions that would give us the best chance of averting catastrophe - and would benefit the vast majority - are extremely threatening to an elite minority that has a stranglehold over our economy, our political process, and most of our major media outlets.

Hope is a gift we give ourselves, and it remains when all else is gone.

My aim in homeschooling is to give my children the ability to be an adult learner, a skill set that will last the rest of their lives.

When people commit themselves to a certain vision of reality, it becomes their ultimate explainer. It serves to interpret the universe for them, to guide their moral decisions, to give meaning and purpose to life, and all the other functions normally associated with a religion.

Never give away your work. People don’t value what they don’t have to pay for.

Mama told me to make a special point to remember the best times of my life. There are so many hard things to live through, and latching on to the good things will give you strength to endure, she says. So I must remember this day. It is beautiful and this seems like the best time to live and the best place

Drinking makes a person lose his inhibitions and give exhibitions

What it gives any human being a right to - to pick and choose which embryo - which fetus is more valuable than another. That's is not up to human beings.

Even the poor should give something to charity.

When you depart from standard usage, it should be deliberate and not an accidental lapse. Like a poet who breaks the rules of poetry for creative effect, this only works when you know and respect the rule you are breaking. If you have never heard of the rules you are breaking, you have no right to do so, and you are likely to come off like a buffoon or a barbarian. Breaking rules, using slang and archaic language can be effective, but it is just as likely to give you an audience busy with wincing.

Glory is sacrifice, glory is exhaustion, glory is having nothing left to give.

Swords don't glorify the creator-God. Love does. Self-giving love, best of all.

The past is dead except for the life you give it

Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure.

Young man the simple answer is: land, land and land. No-one gives up land. Ever.

The more we empty ourselves, the more room we give God to fill us.

We may not be able to give much but we can always give the joy that springs in a heart that is in LOVE WITH GOD.

Our poverty is freedom. This is our poverty - the giving up our freedom to dispose of things, to choose, to possess

The 'blind trust' is an age-old ruse. You give a blind trust rules. You can say to a blind trust, don't invest in properties which would be in conflict of interest or where the seller might think they're going to take advantage from me.

I'm giving up on love cause love's given up on me.

When I get home, I'm not the boss like I am at work - I slip into a more feminine role. I take everything off and put on my Stella McCartney silk robe. I'll put on a red lip or red nails, and it lifts my mood. Sexy underwear also gives you a spark.

Repetition is sometimes the best way to deal with the Luideag: just keep saying the same thing over and over until she gets fed up and gives you what you want. All preschoolers have an instinctive grasp of this concept, but most don’t practice it on immortal water demons. That’s probably why there are so few disembowelments in your average preschool.

God wants my life to be about being successful and being happy and blessing other people and being blessed.