"Forgive: if you never know forgiveness, You'll never know the blessings that God gives."
Read quote
8 likes
Giving quotes
Giving
21.9K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Giving
Browse quotes that often appear alongside giving — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Giving quotes (page 118 of 1095)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"Give yourself a kiss. If you want to hold the beautiful one, hold yourself."
Read quote
8 likes
"If you want what visible reality can give, you are an employee. If you want the unseen world you are not living with your truth. Both wishes are foolish, but you'll be forgiven for forgetting that what you really want is loves confusing joy."
Read quote
8 likes
"I'm not giving up acting, I'm definitely not going to stop"
Read quote
8 likes
"It's like this, by not giving my album a classic rating, you diminish your magazine's credibility. And that's real."
Read quote
8 likes
"Premature success gives one an almost mystical conception of destiny as opposed to will power-at its worst the Napoleonic delusion."
Read quote
8 likes
"Talk English to me, Tommy. Parlez francais avec moi, Nicole. But the meanings are different-- in French you can be heroic and gallant with dignity, and you know it. But in English you can't be heroic and gallant without being a little absurd, and you know that too. That gives me an advantage."
Read quote
8 likes
"I like books that don't give you an easy ride. I like the feeling of discomfort. The sense of being implicated."
Read quote
8 likes
"The most incredible gift you can give someone in a video is to help them feel less alone... The things that make us feel the most alone, have the greatest power to connect us"
Read quote
8 likes
"I don't give a damn if I go to hell. I love you Satan. The road to hell is paved with good intentions."
Read quote
8 likes
"My work gives me a sense of purpose that I never really had before - it gives me a lot of joy, and it would be wonderful to invite other people to get involved."
Read quote
8 likes
"Let us give today first the vital things of life and all the grace and ornaments of life will follow."
Read quote
8 likes
"My knowledge of the letter of the Shastras is better, but of true religion they are able to give me but little."
Read quote
8 likes
"It is not that I do not get angry. I don't give vent to my anger. I cultivate the quality of patience as angerlessness, and generally speaking, I succeed. But I only control my anger when it comes. How I find it possible to control it would be a useless question, for it is a habit that everyone must cultivate and must succeed in forming by constant practice."
Read quote
8 likes
"Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents never revenges itself."
Read quote
8 likes
"If you see what is small as it sees itself, and accept what is weak for what strength it has, and use what is dim for the light it gives then all will go well. This is called Acting Naturally."
Read quote
8 likes
"There is a thing inherent and natural which existed before heaven and earth. Motionless and fathomless, It stands alone and never changes; It pervades everywhere and never becomes exhausted. It may be regarded as the Mother of the Universe. I do not know its name. If I am forced to give It a name, I call it Tao, and I name it as supreme."
Read quote
8 likes
"If you would take, you must first give."
Read quote
8 likes
"If science ever gets to the bottom of Voodoo in Haiti and Africa, it will be found that some important medical secrets, still unknown to medical science, give it its power, rather than the gestures of ceremony."
Read quote
8 likes
"Often when someone comes to you and wants to vent, it's so tempting to start giving advice. But if you allow the person just to let the feelings out, and then at another time come back with advice or comments, that person would experience a deeper healing."
Read quote
8 likes