Giving Quotes - Page 39

• Almost everyone believes that at some level birthmothers make a choice to give their babies away. ...Adoption is rarely about mothers' choices; it is, instead, about the abject choicelessness of some resourceless women.

  Rickie Solinger

  Mother, Baby, Believe

  Rickie Solinger (2002). “Beggars and Choosers: How the Politics of Choice Shapes Adoption, Abortion, and Welfare in the United States”, p.67, Macmillan

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• Forgiveness isn't an end in itself. The point of forgiveness is to remove the barrier that stands between us and God so that He can give us His Spirit and bring us into His everlasting family.

  Darrell Bock

  Adoption, Spirit, Ends

  Darrell Bock (2010). “Recovering the Real Lost Gospel”, p.19, B&H Publishing Group

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• I'm a huge fan of Jack Lemmon, he was someone who managed to tread that line between comedy and tragedy and sometimes give very big performances, but they were never over-demonstrative and they were never not based on a kind of real truthful human being.

  Steve Coogan

  Real, Tragedy, Fans

  "Exclusive Interview: Steve Coogan". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 19, 2009.

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• Most of all, God has blessed us by giving us the privilege of knowing Him and walking with Him every day. He did this by sending His Son into the world to die for our sins.

  Billy Graham

  God, Faith, Christian

  FaceBook post by Billy Graham from Nov 26, 2015

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• Let us give thanks for what we are and for the circumstances God has given us for our personal journey through mortality.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Gratitude, Journey, Thanks

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• Looking forward with an eternal perspective gives one hope, a reason to look up and feel gratitude for even the smallest bit of light.

  Rosemary M. Wixom

  Gratitude, Light, Perspective

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• We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility, contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country.

  C. S. Lewis

  Country, Humility, Thankfulness

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• To plant trees is to give body and life to one's dreams of a better world.

  Russell Page

  Dream, Tree, World

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• When I have plucked the rose, I cannot give it vital growth again, It needs must wither. I'll smell it on the tree.

  William Shakespeare

  Smell, Rose, Tree

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 5, sc. 2, l. 1

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• Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Philosophy, Tree, Fields

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1910). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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• Be like a tree. The tree gives shade even to him who cuts off its boughs.

  Chaitanya Mahaprabhu

  Cutting, Tree, Shade

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• Let soldiers on manoeuvres plant trees. Give police and criminals a shovel and a thousand seedlings.

  John Wright

  Tree, Police, Soldier

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• A tree is a wonderful living organism which gives shelter, food, warmth and protection to all living things. It even gives shade to those who wield an axe to cut it down

  Gautama Buddha

  Cutting, Tree, Shelter

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• Nick Diaz is a champion so he's got the spirit that comes with it. So he's not going to give up mentally. You see a lot of guys give up mentally and that's why they get knocked out or submitted. They give up mentally before they lose.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Sports, Perseverance, Giving Up

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• Courtesy gives its owner a passport round the world. It transmutes aliens into trusting friends.

  James Thomas Fields

  Kindness, World, Aliens

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• I like to give opinions, not suggestions

  John Wooden

  Sportsmanship, Suggestions, Opinion

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• Aspire to be, and all that we are not God will give us credit for trying.

  Nannie Helen Burroughs

  Trying, Credit, Gods Will

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• My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Ideas, Brilliant

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• In my opinion instruction is very purposeless for such individuals who do no want merely to collect a mass of knowledge, but are mainly interested in exercising (training) their own powers. One doesn't need to grasp such a one by the hand and lead him to the goal, but only from time to time give him suggestions, in order that he may reach it himself in the shortest way.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Education, Exercise, Science

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• You can achieve much in life if you don't mind doing the work and giving someone else the credit.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Achievement, Mind, Credit

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• That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done.

  Barack Obama

  Stars, Choices, Achievement

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• The short-cut to popularity is to lend everyone your ears, instead of giving them your tongue

  Frank Bettger

  Cutting, Ears, Tongue

  Frank Bettger (2009). “How I Raised Myself From Failure”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• If church prelates, past or present, had even an inkling of physiology they'd realize that what they term this inner ugliness creates and nourishes the hearing ear, the seeing eye, the active mind, and energetic body of man and woman, in the same way that dirt and dung at the roots give the plant its delicate leaves and the full-blown rose.

  Sean O'Casey

  Eye, Past, Men

  Sean O'Casey (1981). “Inishfallen, fare thee well”

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• If we continue to believe God and place our trust in Him, bad things ultimately give way to better things.

  Joyce Meyer

  God, Faith, Christian

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• Believers talk about trusting in the Lord with their whole heart and refusing to lean on thier own understanding, but no one really knows what that means until circumstances cast them headfirst into a dark and painful place. If we give ourselves fully to God in those moments, we will obtain keepsakes of Him to treasure now and forever.

  David Jeremiah

  Faith, Christian, Heart

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