G Quotes
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“Giving someone their style or bumping up their sense of style to be a better version of what it is, is part of the fun of what I do, and I actually approached Al Sharpton. They didn't come to me.”
“Giving something back is a huge deal. You'll notice every successful athlete uses that at some point in his career during an interview. "I'm gonna give something back. Gotta give something back to the community." "Yaaaay! Right on!" People just fall for it. It's a necessary inclusion.”
“Giving something your time isn't the same as giving it your attention.”
“Giving space for people to talk about dreams allows bosses to help people find opportunities that can move them in the direction of those dreams. This makes work more satisfying and more meaningful and ultimately improved retention. But retention was the by-product—satisfying, meaningful work and productive relationships with the boss were the primary goals of Russ's 'career conversation' process.”
Source: Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
“Giving style” to one’s character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason and even weakness delights the eye.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“Giving thanks all year round, all the time, often give you more to be thankful for. - STRONG: Powerful Philosophy for Timeless Thoughts by Kailin Gow.”
“Giving thanks, being appreciative, and expressing gratitude are the quickest way to abundance.”
“Giving thanks fills you with light and joy so you can shine like the bright star you truly are.”
“Giving thanks for abundance is sweeter than the abundance itself.”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“Giving thanks for the little things draw bigger, better, and extra things your way.”
Source: These Words Pour Like Rain
“Giving thanks is a key that opens a door to greater connectedness and greater participation in the life of the world. It is one of the most powerful spiritual practices available to us.”
“Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness of God when Satan and all the world would sneer at us to recant.”
Source: One Thousand Gifts Devotional: Reflections on Finding Everyday Graces
“Giving Thanks leads to a desire to forgive, and forgiveness speaks of pure surrender and acceptance of the things that have happened in our lives, with that accomplished we can experience the Peace and Joy of true Forgiveness, Not only for others but for ourselves also.”
“Giving thanks to God for both His temporal and spiritual blessings in our lives is not just a nice thing to do - it is the moral will of God. Failure to give Him the thanks due Him is sin.”
Source: Respectable Sins: Confronting the Sins We Tolerate
“Giving Thanks unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have, no matter how little, into more than enough. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. Gratitude can change a modest meal into a feast, a humble house into a loving home, a stranger into a caring friend.”
“Giving that is not motivated by love is worth nothing.”
Source: Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God
“Giving the best to others are giving the best to us. The value of life is not based on how long we live. But, how much can we contribute to others in our society ?”
“Giving the cat a name, like marriage, is not an easy thing. Soon I experienced the selection of name for a baby, a dog, a book, a warship, a sports team, even the king, the pope or a hurricane is just child's play compared to the selection of the cat's name.”
“Giving the kids a programming environment of any sort, whether it's a tool like Squeak or Scratch or Logo to write programs in a childish way - and I mean that in the most generous sense of the word, that is, playing with and building things - is one of the best ways to learn.”
“Giving the Linus Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is a bit like giving the Han Solo Award to the Rebel Alliance.”
“Giving the reader the space to move around and be active, and encourage their active response is important to me. That will connect the reader more to the text.”
“Giving the rugged repairman the eye was one thing -- but Charity had no intention of snogging away a whole rainy afternoon when she was supposed to be catching up on her work. Lady Margaret was counting on her! But then again, Lady Margaret didn't have big brown eyes and a cheeky grin.”
Source: Mr. Wrong
“Giving the tortoise a little wave, I kind of felt stupid afterward for doing so. It just stuck its head back in its green and brown shell. "That's a very interesting pet." "And those are very interesting shorts." His gaze dropped. "What are they?" Leaning forward his eyes narrowed and I stiffened. "Pizza slices?" Heat swamped my cheeks. "They're ice cream cones." "Huh. I like them." Straightening, his gaze drifted up me slowly, leaving an unfamiliar wake of heat behind. "A lot.”
“giving the utmost of herself to three absorbing interests [marriage, motherhood, career] ... was a problem for a superwoman, and a job for a superwoman, and only some such fabled being could have accomplished it with success.”
“Giving these lil’ fellas a gun was important to keep the name of the Rebellions strong, because whenever the name drops, it’s only a matter of time before someone kicks your door in. Scrooge, former leader of the Rebellion Raiders street gang that once boasted of having some ten thousand members”
Source: The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father
“Giving these students, teenagers, any form of power over the use of their own words, allowing them to turn everyday raw material into some form of beauty, is a gift beyond measure.”
“Giving those animals [in shelter] quality time - now, I have been in some of the shelters where the cats have been in group housing. Well if you have a cat that never gets out of sternal recumbency, now what that means is that [inaudible] - that's a stressed cat. If they lay on their side, then they are not stressed out.”
“Giving tithes alone is not enough for financial prosperity.”
“Giving to God should come from the firstfruits of a person's labor rather than from what is left after the bills are paid.”
“Giving to other people makes me feel alive. Not my car or my house. Not what I look like in the mirror. When I give my time, when I can make someone smile after they were feeling sad.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“Giving to others is the greatest gift you can give yourself.”
“Giving to others selflesly and anonymously, radiating light throughout the world and illuminating your own darkness, your virtue becomes a sanctuary for yourself and all beings.”
“Giving to the poor is an essential part of Christian morality.”
Source: Joyful Christian
“Giving triggers social cohesion. It's also the basis for an economy not based on money.”
“Giving tuition breaks to the children of illegal immigrants needs to stop.”
“Giving up a lot of yourself isn't really that hard when you realize that you get more than you give up.”
“Giving up also takes courage.”
Source: Amazed: A Girl’s Infinite Pursuit to Grasp the Essence of Humanity in Writing
“Giving up an addiction means re-programming that part of your brain that makes you restless and unhappy if a desire is not realized.”
“Giving up and doing something else (nursing, for me) was exactly what eventually led me to making music that other people wanted to hear.”
“Giving up and letting go have similar resonances,
and often it is only when you give up
that you can fully know and feel who and where you actually are.”
“Giving up attachment to the world does not mean that you set yourself apart from it. Generating a desire for others to be happy increases your humanity. As you become less attached to the world, you become more humane. As the very purpose of spiritual practice is to help others, you must remain in society.”
“Giving up control and just trying to be happy at the moment has proven to be the best thing for me.”
“Giving up doesn't make you a quiter, a loser or a failure.
It makes you wise enough to stop holding on to what refuses to be held.
Hence i say, letting go hurts,
but holding on to what is no longer there
hurts even more.”
“giving up doesn't always mean your weak sometimes your just strong enough to let go”
“Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.”
“Giving up everything must mean giving over everything to kingdom purposes, surrendering everything to further the one central cause, loosening our grip on everything. For some of us, this may mean ridding ourselves of most of our possessions. But for all of us it should mean dedicating everything we retain to further the kingdom. (For true disciples, however, it cannot mean hoarding or using kingdom assets self-indulgently.)”
“Giving up flesh foods may help cure arthritis. This has become evident from a widely acclaimed study conducted in 1991 by Norwegian researchers. This study showed that meatless diets relieved rheumatoid arthritis symptoms in nine out of ten patients. This was because animal fat incites joint inflammation, according to researchers. Dr. Jens Kjeldsen-Kragh, M.D., of the Institute of Immunology and Rheumatology at the National Rheumatism Hospital of Oslo, conducted a study about the usefulness of vegetarian foods in arthritis.”
Source: Healing Through Natural Foods
“Giving up harmful pleasures brings pleasure from giving up.”
“Giving up is bad but giving up early is even worse because in the second case, we haven’t even tried enough.”
Source: 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
“Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true. Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I've been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.”