Top 190 Gives Quotes

Dream small dreams. If you make them too big, you get overwhelmed and you don’t do anything. If you make small goals and accomplish them, it gives you the confidence to go on to higher goals.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber.

Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon.

Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.

I’ve earned every wrinkle on my face. I actually like my wrinkles. And guess what? There are a lot of 60-year-old men who have wrinkles, no hair, glasses, and nobody gives a damn.

By laughing at me, the audience really laughs at themselves, and realizing they have done this gives them sort of a spiritual second wind for going back into the battles of life.

Having a baby is a life-changer. It gives you a whole other perspective on why you wake up every day.

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing.

I’ve come to the conclusion that mythology is really a form of archaeological psychology. Mythology gives you a sense of what a people believes, what they fear.

We’re not like robots. God promises to guide us through the Holy Spirit, but He gives us the freedom to make our own decisions.

I love essential oils – there’s one for every problem. It’s kind of like nature‘s answers for what to put on your skin. I had acne when I was a teenager, and I did a pretty intense tea tree thing. You dilute it in a base oil, like carrot seed oil, which is good because it gives your face a little glow.

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

That I be not as those are who spend the day in complaining of headache and the night in drinking the wine which gives the headache!

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

Don’t settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something.

Swimming gives me immense satisfaction.

Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift… The hangover comes the day after.

At Brondby, we had Daniel Agger, who came up from the youth. He had two years in the team, and then we sold him to Liverpool for nearly £7 million, which is a lot of money in Denmark. As a manager, that gives you even greater satisfaction that winning something as a player.

Art is about changing what we see in our everyday lives and representing it in such a way that it gives us hope.

An approach that phases in congressional term limits reconciles the self-interest of members of Congress with the public’s desire to see these changes enacted and gives us the best chance to make term limits a reality.

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.

As long as God gives me strength to work and try to make things real for my children, I’m going to work for it – even if it means making the ultimate sacrifice.

In many a piece of music, it’s the pause or the rest that gives the piece its beauty and its shape. And I know I, as a writer, will often try to include a lot of empty space on the page so that the reader can complete my thoughts and sentences and so that her imagination has room to breathe.

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act.

A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening; it gives a change from the surroundings of home, however pleasant.

Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person.

The Holy Spirit gives me everything I need.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

I do not pay any heed to the negative thoughts, I just go with the plan my team gives me.

In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That’s the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it.

When someone saves your life and gives you life, there’s gratitude, humility; there’s a time you’ve been so blessed you realize you’ve been given another chance at life that maybe you did or didn’t deserve.

We’re all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don’t make any big ones.

I remember, as a boy of 17 years of age, this was a fascinating thing for me: how we human beings breathe out carbon dioxide into the air, the leaves of plants pick this carbon dioxide up, and the plant gives off oxygen, which we can breathe in and keep our life going.

The sky is always there for me, while my life has been going through many, many changes. When I look up the sky, it gives me a nice feeling, like looking at an old friend.

Being different gives the world color.

I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you’ve done.

The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.

The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.

If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.

But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What’s appealing is that you don’t have as much responsibility for storytelling and plot. They can be more like a portrait, or a poem.

Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.

I’m always grateful for any kind of moment that keeps my memories alive and gives me a little taste of the excitement I used to get all the time.

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.

God gives his hardest battles to his strongest soldiers.

Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is.

Freedom always deals with ‘the possible‘; this gives freedom its great flexibility, its fascination, and its dangers.

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

I use a credit card for everything – and I choose one of the ones which gives you money back.

Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.

Comparison is a disease. I never felt any competition, since I never compared myself to others. I only focus on my work. I never feel pressurised and do films in my style. Also, I’m very active since childhood, and that gives me the edge to always put my best.

Fiction gives us the second chances that life denies us.

My dad is still Christian Scientist. My mom’s not, and I’m not. But I believe in God, and that there’s a higher power and an intelligence that’s bigger than us and that we can rely on. It’s not just us, thinking we are the ones in control of everything. That idea gives me support.

The feeling of own roof gives a sense of protection to the people.

Black Rock gives us all a chance to heal, to become ourselves.

Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.

Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging.

Every good citizen makes his country‘s honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.

Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment.

God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it.

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you’re enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect.

The quality of a leader cannot be judged by the answers he gives, but by the questions he asks.

I feel beautiful without makeup on, but when I do put makeup on, it just gives me this extra pop.

It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity.

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

Digital communication is completely different from in-person, face-to-face conversations. One will give you surface insights, and the other really gives you depth.

Getting your house in order and reducing the confusion gives you more control over your life. Personal organization some how releases or frees you to operate more effectively.

If life gives you lemons, don’t settle for simply making lemonade – make a glorious scene at a lemonade stand.

Automation provides us with wondrous increases of production and information, but does it tell us what to do with the men the machines displace? Modern industry gives us the capacity for unparalleled wealth – but where is our capacity to make that wealth meaningful to the poor of every nation?

Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.

In one way, I suppose, I have been ‘in denial‘ for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that.

Man gives you the award but God gives you the reward.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

Nothing gives a person more confidence… than to be zipped snugly inside a bee suit.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

When people criticize me, instead of putting my head down, it gives me energy to do even more.

A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.

My position has always been that the way people age and the signs that we show of aging is nature’s way of tattooing. It’s natural scarification, and the life you lead gives you the symbols and the emblems of your life, the road map you followed.

A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it. That includes health information. And mental health information. It’s a community space. It’s a place of safety, a haven from the world.

Anytime we’re talking about Thurgood Marshall, that’s a good thing, I think, because it gives us an opportunity to go back, look at the history, and recognize what his contributions were.

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.

Control is what gives you privacy.

Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.

God gives us life and takes us away as He sees fit.

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

I don’t know whether your heart ever necessarily changes, but time changes the way that you perceive the world. And you just hope it gives you more empathy and all those other things.

I love the confidence that makeup gives me.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

In life, an abundance of confidence gives us higher motivation, persistence, and optimism and can allow us to accomplish things we otherwise might not have undertaken.

Try to forget what objects you have before you – a tree, a house, a field, or whatever. Merely think, ‘Here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow,’ and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives you your own impression of the scene before you.

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

A man who gives himself to be a possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life, having bartered his soul to a brute-master. He is not of them. He may stand against them, persuade himself of a mission, batter and twist them into something which they, of their own accord, would not have been.

Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.

Baseball is a game based on adversity. It’s a game that’s going to test you repeatedly. It’s going to find your weaknesses and vulnerabilities and force you to adjust. That adversity, in the big picture, is a really good thing because it shows you where your weaknesses are. It gives you the opportunity to improve.

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.

Injury in general teaches you to appreciate every moment. I’ve had my share of injuries throughout my career. It’s humbling. It gives you perspective. No matter how many times I’ve been hurt, I’ve learned from that injury and come back even more humble.

God does not give us salvation because we believe. Our believing is only the normal way of receiving the salvation he freely gives.

People say, ‘You’re still breast-feeding, that’s so generous.’ Generous, no! It gives me boobs and it takes my thighs away! It’s sort of like natural liposuction. I’d carry on breast-feeding for the rest of my life if I could.

This is a perverse thing, personally, but I would rather be in the cycle where people are underestimating us. It gives us latitude to go out and make big bets that excite and amaze people.

Free Trade puts consumers at the centre of economic activity. It lowers the cost of imports, which gives people the opportunity to buy more with the same amount of money: domestic producers have to compete with the lowest global costs or invest in new business.

Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that’s what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.

We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we’ve established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.

My game is based on improvisation. Often, a forward does not have the time to think too much. You have a second, rarely more, to decide whether to dribble, shoot or pass to the right or left. It is instinct that gives the orders.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

God gives some more than others because some accept more than others.

Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

A right is not what someone gives you; it’s what no one can take from you.

So during those first moments of the day, which are yours and yours alone, you can circumvent these boundaries and concentrate fully on spiritual matters. And this gives you the opportunity to plan the time management of the entire day.

To will what God doth will, that is the only science that gives us any rest.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

Ferrari gives you a special feeling.

Singing is my passion, my first love and the secret of my energy. Music to me is like finding my inner self, my soul. It gives me a great joy to see audiences enjoying with me. I have given my heart to singing. When I sing, I can feel romance in everything around me.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow‘s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

Music is sunshine. Like sunshine, music is a powerful force that can instantly and almost chemically change your entire mood. Music gives us new energy and a stronger sense of purpose.

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.

I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light.

Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.

Being married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.

I love acting because it’s a bit of an escape. It gives you the ability to reinvent yourself. They say that acting is the shy man’s revenge.

Nothing is black or white, nothing’s ‘us or them.’ But then there are magical, beautiful things in the world. There’s incredible acts of kindness and bravery, and in the most unlikely places, and it gives you hope.

I pity the fool who just gives up.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.

Hiding, secrets, and not being able to be yourself is one of the worst things ever for a person. It gives you low self-esteem. You never get to reach that peak in your life. You should always be able to be yourself and be proud of yourself.

The crowd, still shouting, gives way before us. We plough our way through. Women hold their aprons over their faces and go stumbling away. A roar of fury goes up. A wounded man is being carried off.

Isn’t it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

An expert is somebody who is more than 50 miles from home, has no responsibility for implementing the advice he gives, and shows slides.

Each year, Labor Day gives us an opportunity to recognize the invaluable contributions that working men and women make to our nation, our economy and our collective prosperity. It gives us a chance to show gratitude for workers‘ grit, dedication, ingenuity and strength, which define our nation’s character.

I was very down as a teenager, very upset because I had gotten hurt in a car accident. But my dad was a source of strength. He used to say, ‘It’s the character with strength that God gives the most challenges to.’ I’ve thought about that so many times in my life when things didn’t go right.

As far as I’m concerned, Cate Blanchett is a goddess, but she‘s really down to earth. She’s got all those Oscars, she’s made all those amazing films and she could spend her whole life doing that, but what does she also do? She gives birth to three boys and creates her own theatre in Sydney.

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

Taking risks gives me energy.

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

If every plant and flower were found in all places, the charm of locality would not exist. Everything varies, and that gives the interest.

Indian culture certainly gives the Indian mind, including the mind of the Indian scientist, the ability to think out of the box.

What gives me the most hope every day is God’s grace; knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God.

Love gives itself; it is not bought.

Music reality shows provide a platform to people who have talent and gives them visibility and exposure. It is a win-win situation for participants.

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and gives birth to a culture of might, a culture of weapons, violence and intolerance.

Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that’s where charisma comes from, from the leading.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

When I receive an award it gives me more encouragement, hope and drive to go forward with my voice to sing better and better.

I’m a quarter Chinese and three-quarter Filipino. I don’t look Filipino; I look more Chinese or Korean. It actually works in my favor: in terms of roles, it gives me a broader canvas.

I can’t help feeling that I am not a very important person, and being treated like one gives me strange feelings.

If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.

Indeed, a major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it… gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

Looking after my health today gives me a better hope for tomorrow.

Don’t let negativity affect your vision. A lot of people have said harsh things, but I don’t let it affect me. If anything it gives me more enthusiasm and pushes me to do better in my career so I can prove them wrong.

The thing that grounds you, and the thing that really gives you a sense of wholeness, is your family, friends and your community. Those are the things that can mirror back to you what you’re experiencing, and can affirm to you that the stories you are telling are true.

As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute… that gives meaning to our lives.

As the novelty of wearable tech gives way to necessity – and, later, as wearable tech becomes embedded tech – will we be deprived of the chance to pause, reflect, and engage in meaningful, substantive conversations? How will our inner lives and ties to those around us change?

I like fruit baskets because it gives you the ability to mail someone a piece of fruit without appearing insane. Like, if someone just mailed you an apple you’d be like, ‘huh? What the hell is this?’ But if it’s in a fruit basket you’re like, ‘this is nice!’

Despair gives courage to a coward.

I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.

My dad always taught me never to give up in my mind. You can never really beat me. It sounds ridiculous, but I will always come back for you. You can’t beat someone who never gives up. I could lose 100 times to you, but I will always get you. I will die trying. This applies not only to swimming but to my life as well.

For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won’t contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That’s what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.

Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.

What gives it its human character is that the individual through language addresses himself in the role of the others in the group and thus becomes aware of them in his own conduct.

In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

The stage is my first love. It gives me immense self-satisfaction, a sort of power because a stage actor carries the audience along; it’s a live performance; spontaneity is its soul.

Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Typically, when you read, you have more time to think. Reading gives you a unique pause button for comprehension and insight. By and large, with oral language – when you watch a film or listen to a tape – you don’t press pause.

The bat is not a toy, it’s a weapon. It gives me everything in life, which helps me to do everything on the field.

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

I would argue that nothing gives life more purpose than the realization that every moment of consciousness is a precious and fragile gift.

A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows.

I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud, and that the jig is up. Surely someone will rise up from the audience and say out loud that not only am I not funny and helpful, but I’m annoying, and a phony.

The problem with the Internet is that it gives you everything – reliable material and crazy material. So the problem becomes, how do you discriminate?

Righteousness has to do with the vertical standard that God gives us to please Him. Justice has to do with the horizontal expression of that righteous standard in the lives of others.

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.