Top 1200 Giving Directions Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Every day work on your humility through your meditation, giving more of yourself, giving those things you don't want to give.

I believe in never giving up, no matter what the odds. My mantra is, 'Failure is temporary. Giving up is permanent.'

Giving is more joyous than receiving, not because it is a deprivation, but because in the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness.

People love giving cooks spoons, I've noticed. Or, at least, they love giving them to me.

My choice was to ruin my son's life by giving him money or giving 90-plus percent to charity. Not much of a choice.

Fate pulls you in different directions.

People single you out when they think you're not giving your all. When they see you giving it all you have, they don't get on your case.

God keeps giving Himself as long as we bring that into which He can pour Himself. And when we stop bringing, He stops giving.

We don't drift into good directions. We discipline and prioritize ourselves there.

Some actors don't even read the stage directions at all.

Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain. Fancy giving money to the Government! Nobody will see the stuff again. Well, they've not idea what money's for- Ten to one they'll start another war. I've heard a lot of silly things, but, Lor'! Fancy giving money to the Government!

Dreams are the directions to the rest of your life!

When I feel the joy of receiving a gift my heart nudges me to join creation's ballet, the airy dance of giving and receiving, and getting and giving again.

The essence of charity ... was not deciding what others needed and giving it to them, but giving them what they wanted.

Can you comprehend everything in the four directions and still do nothing?

I cry at random things, like a flower, or someone giving me a present, or my sister giving me a nice hug.

Freedom came in strange forms and from unexpected directions.

Brains aren't designed to get results. They go in DIRECTIONS.

Why is it that countries which we call strong are so powerful in creating wars but are so weak in bringing peace? Why is it that giving guns is so easy but giving books is so hard?

Contextualization is not giving people what they want. It is giving God's answers (which they probably do not want) to the questions they are asking and in forms they can comprehend.

Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving.

There's nothing more satisfying than going to a market and meeting the person who picked the strawberries, or it's their farm that the strawberries came from, and giving them a fair value in exchange for what they're giving you.

I'm not big on reading directions. I can't do that. I'm just not from that world.

Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.

I can swing widely in both directions of helpful or not.

... by indirections find directions out.

When you are giving people the gospel, you are giving them something to believe, and you have to set the stage for that. You don't just drive up and dump the truck and drive off.

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.

Self-giving means that we have to understand the nature of giving. When most people give, they give expecting a return on their investment.

...instead of giving a rifle to somebody, build a school; instead of giving a rifle, build a community with adequate services. Instead of giving a rifle, develop an educational system that is not about conflict and violence, but one that promotes respect for values, for life, and respect for one's elders. This requires a huge investment. Yet if we can invest in a different vision of peaceful coexistence, I think we can change the world, because every problem has a nonviolent answer.

Giving is an essential for spiritual unfoldment, for until we give and give abundantly, we don't really realize that we are not the giver; we are just a channel for giving.

Just because you have so much to give does not mean that they'll all be accepted. There's more to giving than just giving.

If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions.

One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

If you're giving love and not receiving it, you're not in the right relationship. If you're receiving it and not giving it than you are taking advantage of the other person.

I feel creatively vibrant. I have some great friends; I feel like I'm capable of giving a lot to the world. And ultimately, that's what I really care about, is just giving.

I've found that giving 100% to your job isn't the same as giving 100% of your life to your job. Very often when I thought I was giving 100% of my life to my job, I was simply obsessing over something.

Compassion goes on giving, but knows no feeling of giving, knows no feeling that "I am the giver." And then existence goes on responding in thousands of ways. You give a little love and from everywhere love starts flowing. The man of compassion is not trying to snatch anything away, he is not greedy. He does not wait for the return, he goes on giving. He goes on getting too, but that is not in his mind.

It's easier to change directions while you're still moving.

It really takes something for someone to get up the nerve to share the impact you have had on them, and to them, giving you that recognition is liking giving a gift.

I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.

My message is that giving is very important. Giving is a Jewish thing, and I like to talk about that. There's nothing more important, personally, for anybody than being able to give.

When I was younger, I went with a friend of mine to Nairobi for 3 months and helped teach in an orphanage's school. It was a great experience and made me truly understand that giving back - by giving time, not just money - was so rewarding.

No matter how poorly our lives seem to be going, we can become part of a greater flow of good and increase our awareness by doing something more than we have to do-by giving of ourselves. One of the keys to prosperity is realizing that prosperity doesn't come by getting more-it comes by giving more! We can prosper by emphasizing what we are giving rather than concentrating on what we are getting.

How can we expect our children to know and experience the joy of giving unless we teach them that the greater pleasure in life lies in the art of giving rather than receiving.

Psychology is as useless as directions for using poison.

I can be a bit of an overachiever and always dance that line of balance between giving myself to work versus giving time to myself and loved ones.

I'm awful with directions, and I'm not very handy around the house.

I pursue no intentions, no directions; I have no program, no style and no mission.

My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.

I can move both of my eyes separately in different directions.

me giving my mom romantic advice is kind of like a goldfish giving a snail advice on how to fly.” -Will Grayson (pg. 66)

The action of giving is in a certain vibratory level, meaning giving exists in a certain plane of consciousness.

Giving the Linus Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is a bit like giving the Han Solo Award to the Rebel Alliance.

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

My career has taken so many directions.

I profoundly feel that the art of living is the art of giving. You're fulfilled in the moment of giving, of doing something beyond yourself.

I'm not giving up politics entirely - I'm just giving up leadership of a political party.

Have gratitude for the things you're discarding. By giving gratitude, you're giving closure to the relationship with that object, and by doing so, it becomes a lot easier to let go.

From him to the stars, in all directions, there was only silence and emptiness.