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• Giving is what makes a nation great.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Nation, Giving
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  Giving connects two people, the giver and the receiver, and this connection gives birth to a new sense of belonging.

  Deepak Chopra

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Belonging, Giving

• Even after all this time,
  The sun never says to the earth,
  “You owe me.”
  Look what happens with
  A love like that.
  It lights the whole sky.

  Hafez

  Topics in Appreciation, Expectations, Friendship, Kindness, Life, Love

  Tags in Gratitude, Generosity, Hospitality, Giving, Forgiveness, Freedom

• The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them.

  Rod McKuen

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Giving, Accept

• Fiscally, I’m very conservative. I don’t believe in welfare states. I believe in giving people jobs.

  Gene Simmons

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Believe, Giving

• I think we’re giving people something new that people didn’t know was out there before.

  Brit Hume

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Giving

• It’s only the giving that makes you what you are.

  Ian Anderson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Giving, Makes

• To look forward and not back,
  To look out and not in, and
  To lend a hand.

  Edward Everett Hale

  Topics in Commitment, Future, Service

  Tags in Generosity, Giving, Credo, Creed

• The number one mistake is giving pets table scraps. I made the mistake thinking I was showing my dog love by giving her food and treats. You see a tiny 4 oz. piece of cheese, but for a Boston Terrier like mine, that’s like one and a half hamburgers. That’s unhealthy.

  Alison Sweeney

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Food, Giving

• So if diva means giving your best, then yes, I guess I am a diva.

  Patti LaBelle

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Giving

• Because I’m just a giving person spiritually, I feel that if your intentions are to use or abuse or take advantage of, then you might get what you get in the meantime, but there’s still a price to pay.

  Angie Stone

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Person, Giving, Still

• I think people are used to seeing actors be wide open and desperately giving of themselves, and while I do that on a movie set as much as I can, it’s so unnatural for me to do it on television, in interviews, in anything like that. I also don’t find that my process as an actor is really anyone else’s business.

  Kristen Stewart

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Giving, Actors, Movie

• Giving opens the way for receiving.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Receiving, Giving

• Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in.

  Sydney Smith

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Giving, Minute

• Mr. Truman studiously avoided giving power to his White House staff that has been characteristic of recent administrations. Staff people in the White House, with no responsibility but incredible authority is one of the reasons we’re now in so much trouble.

  Stuart Symington

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Giving

• When you’re looking that far out, you’re giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so it doesn’t need translation. It’s like poetry, it touches you.

  Story Musgrave

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Giving

• I can’t think of any sentiment which is finer than being in a position to give people something they like. I love giving, I am rather embarrassed at receiving.

  Trevor McDonald

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Giving, Give

• Shifting toward management meant greater responsibility and influence, but it also meant giving up programming day-to-day in my role, which was hard because it took me out of my comfort zone.

  Marissa Mayer

  Topics in Influence

  Tags in Hard, Giving

• I have a theory that burnout is about resentment. And you beat it by knowing what it is you’re giving up that makes you resentful.

  Marissa Mayer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Giving, Makes, Knowing

• The reason that you dance and sing is to make the audience feel like they’re dancing and singing. As long as you’re having fun with it and giving it 100 percent, they’re gonna feel that.

  Heath Ledger

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Giving, Long, Sing