Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Give

Nothing outside you can ever give you what you’re looking for.
Byron Katie (b.1942) American Speaker, Author

If you’ve truly committed yourself to something, given it all you’ve got, and then concluded that it is not for you—move on to something else.
Susan Jeffers (1938–2012) American Psychologist, Self-Help Author

Your automatic creative mechanism is teleological. That is, it operates in terms of goals and end results. Once you give it a definite goal to achieve, you can depend upon its automatic guidance system to take you to that goal much better than “you” ever could by conscious thought. “You” supply the goal by thinking in terms of end results. Your automatic mechanism then supplies the means whereby.
Maxwell Maltz (1899–1975) American Surgeon, Motivational Writer

We automatically give to each person we meet, but we choose what we give. Our words, our actions, must consciously set the stage for the life we wish to lead.
Marlo Morgan (1937–98) American Novelist, Author

When you give of your possessions, you give but little; it is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931) Lebanese-born American Philosopher, Poet, Painter, Theologian, Sculptor

Your progress depends upon your degree of sustained intensity in a given direction.
Roger McDonald (b.1941) Australian Novelist, Poet, Screenwriter, Writer

To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism… It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of prudence, in the plenitude of its energy and power to repair the harms it may suffer. The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will…
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, “Always do what you are afraid to do”.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

Give me a museum, and I’ll fill it.
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish Painter, Sculptor, Artist

Faith—not a faith in one’s self or in one’s own powers but faith in principle; in the Something Great which upholds right, and which may be relied upon to give us the victory in due time. Without this faith it is not possible for any one to rise to real greatness.
Wallace Wattles (1860–1911) American New Thought Author

You’re never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.
Byron Katie (b.1942) American Speaker, Author

Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor… let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eye, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.
Mother Teresa (1910–97) Roman Catholic Missionary, Nun

The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure. As stars high above earth, you are above everything distressing. But you must awaken to it. Wake up!
Baruch Spinoza (1632–77) Dutch Philosopher, Theologian

I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.
Douglas MacArthur (1880–1964) American Military Leader

If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day.
If you teach a man how to fish, you feed him for a lifetime.
Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie (1837–1919) English Novelist, Biographer

You want to change your life? Control the only thing you can control: the meaning you give something.
Tony Robbins (b.1960) American Self-Help Author, Entrepreneur

So what is the difference between “power thinking” and “positive” thinking? The distinction is slight but profound. To me, people us positive thinking to pretend that everything is rosy, when they really believe that it’s not. With power thinking, we understand that everything is neutral, that nothing has meaning except for the meaning we give it, and that we are going to make up a story and give something it’s meaning.This is the difference between positive thinking and power thinking. With positive thinking, people believe that their thoughts are true. Power thinking recognizes that our thoughts are not true, but since we’re making up a story anyway, we might as well make up a story that supports us. We don’t do this because our new thoughts are “true” in an absolute sense, but because they are ore useful to us and feel a heck of a lot better than nonsupportive ones.
T. Harv Eker (b.1954) American Motivational Speaker, Lecturer, Author

I was made a revolutionary in spite of myself… [A]ll creation presupposes as its origin a sort of appetite that is brought on by the foretaste of discovery. This foretaste of the creative art accompanies the intuitive grasp of an unknown entity that will not take definite shape except by the action of a constantly vigilant technique. This appetite that is aroused in me at the mere thought of putting in order musical elements that have attracted my attention is not at all a fortuitous thing like inspiration, but as habitual and periodic, if not constant, as a natural need… The very act of putting my work on paper, of, as we say, kneading the dough, is for me inseperable from the pleasure of creation. So far as I am concerned, I cannot seperate the spiritual effort from the psychological and physical effort; they confront me on the same level and do not present a hierarchy…What concerns us here is not imagination itself, but rather creative imagination: the facultyy that helps us to pass from the level of conception to the level of realization. In the course of my labors I suddenly stumble upon something unexpected. this unexpected element strikes me. I make note of it. At the proper time I put it to profitable use… The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation. And the true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note… The least accident holds his interest and guides his operations. If his finger slips, he will notice it; on occasion, he may draw profit from something unforeseen that a momentary lapse reveals to him. One does not contrive an accident: one observes it to draw inspiration therefrom.
Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971) Russian-born American Composer, Musician

To excel means to reach beyond the best you have ever given because doing so matters to you personally, for its own sake. It means to run your own race—as an individual, team, or organization. To excel is to know your greatest strengths and passions, and to emphasize them while honestly admitting and managing your weaknesses.
Robert Cooper (b.1947) British Diplomat

From a hundred cultures, [there is] one culture which does what no culture has ever done before—gives a place to every human gift.
Margaret Mead (1901–78) American Anthropologist, Social Psychologist

I believe that traditional wisdom is incomplete. A composer can have all the talent of Mozart and a passionate desire to succeed, but if he believes he cannot compose music, he will come to nothing. He will not try hard enough. He will give up too soon when the elusive right melody takes too long to materialize.
Martin Seligman (b.1942) American Psychologist, Author

Life always gives us exactly the teacher we need at every moment. This includes every mosquito, every misfortune, every red light, every traffic jam, every obnoxious supervisor (or employee), every illness, every loss, every moment of joy or depression, every addiction, every piece of garbage, every breath. Every moment is the guru.
Joko Beck (1917–2011) American Zen Teacher

It is as if evolution has built a safety device in our nervous system that allows us to experience full happiness only when we are living at 100%—when we are fully using the physical and mental equipment we have been given.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1934–2021) Hungarian-American Psychologist

Some individuals have developed such strong internal standards that they no longer need the opinion of others to judge whether they have performed a task well or not. The ability to give objective feedback to oneself is in fact the mark of the expert.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1934–2021) Hungarian-American Psychologist

The only service that you can render God is to give expression to what he is trying to give to the world, through you. The only service you can render God is to make the very most of yourself in order that God may live in you to the utmost of your possibilities.
Wallace Wattles (1860–1911) American New Thought Author

The Principle of Power gives us just what we ask of it; if we only undertake little things, it only gives us power for little things; but if we try to do great things in a great way it gives us all the power there is.
Wallace Wattles (1860–1911) American New Thought Author

You get from the world what you give to the world.
Oprah Winfrey (b.1954) American TV Personality

Legendary violinist Isaac Stern was once confronted by a middle-aged woman after a concert. She gushed, “Oh, I’d give my life to play like you!” “Lady,” Stern said acidly, “that I did!”
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In the fall, you don’t grieve because the leaves are falling and dying. You say, “Isn’t it beautiful!” Well, we’re the same way. There are seasons. We all fall sooner or later. It’s all so beautiful. And our concepts, without investigation, keep us from knowing this. It’s beautiful to be a leaf, to be born, to fall, to give way to the next, to become food for the roots. It’s life, always changing its form and always giving itself completely. We all do our part. No mistake.
Byron Katie (b.1942) American Speaker, Author

I wanted to live deep and suck out all he marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swatch and shave close, to drive life into a corner and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it or if it were sublime to know it by experience and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion.
Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher

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