Famous Quotes & Sayings

Randy Alcorn

Unless we learn how to humbly tell each other our giving stories, our churches will not learn to give.

Randy Alcorn

Giving is the safety valve that releases the excess pressure of wealth.

Randy Alcorn

A disciple does not ask, "How much can I keep?" but, "How much more can I give?" Whenever we start to get comfortable with our level of giving, it's time to raise it again.

Randy Alcorn

Giving jump starts our relationship with God. It opens our fists so we can receive what God has for us.

Randy Alcorn

The more you give, the more comes back to you, because God is the greatest giver in the universe, and He won't let you outgive Him. Go ahead and try. See what happens.

Randy Alcorn

Too often we assume that God has increased our income to increase our standard of living, when his stated purpose is to increase our standard of giving. (Look again at 2 Corinthians 8:14 and 9:11).

Randy Alcorn

God prospers me not to raise my standard of living, but to raise my standard of giving.

Rajneesh

Unless a person decides that `Whatever the cost, I want just to be myself. Condemned, unaccepted, losing respectability - everything is okay but I cannot pretend anymore to be somebody else`... This decision and this declaration - this declaration of freedom, freedom from the weight of the crowd - gives birth to your natural being, to your individuality. Then you don`t need any mask. Then you can be simply yourself, just as you are. And the moment you can be just as you are, there is tremendous peace that passeth understanding.

Rajneesh

You cannot possess all and everything. Whatsoever you possess will not give you contentment. The mind, the ego, will always feel unfulfilled.

Rajneesh

Meditation cannot be purchased and no one can give it to you. You have to achieve it. It is not something outer, it is something inner, a growth, and that growth comes through awareness.

Rajneesh

Bliss follows witnessing - and that is going to be your meditation. Witness your body as separate, witness your mind as separate. Remain rooted in witnessing: "I am only a watcher." That is going to transform your whole life, it is going to give you the ultimate.

Rajneesh

Enlightenment is always through surrender, but surrender is achieved through intelligence. Only idiots cannot surrender. To surrender you need great intelligence. To see the point of surrender is the climax of insight; to see the point that you are not separate from existence is the highest that intelligence can give to you.

Thomas Jefferson

Force cannot give right.

Thomas Jefferson

I never before knew the full value of trees....What would I not give that the trees planted nearest round the house at Monticello were full grown.

Robert Higgs

Any society that entails the strengthening of the state apparatus by giving it unchecked control over the economy, and re-unites the polity and the economy, is an historical regression. In it there is no more future for the public, or for the freedoms it supported, than there was under feudalism.

Robert Hass

Environmental regulation looked like it was going to be under serious attack, and they were giving all of those speeches about getting government off people's backs.

Robert Hass

I teach a lecture course on American poetry to as many as 150 students. For a lot of them, its their only elective, so this is their one shot. Theyll take the Russian Novel or American Poetry, so I want to give them the high points, the inescapable poets.

Robert Herrick

In vain our labours are, whatsoe'er they be, unless God gives the Benediction.

Robert Herrick

Give house-room to the best; 'tis never known Verture and pleasure both to dwell in one.

Robert Henri

Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit.

Rick Ross

I’m single, I’m enjoying life. Being a boss. Like all true bosses, one day you gotta give it up.

Rick Perry

I am going to give the American people a huge helping of unbridled truth: that we can't continue to spend what we are spending, that we can't avoid entitlement reform because we are afraid of third rail politics.

Talib Kweli

Well if somebody's giving me a script, I'll consider it. But it's not something I'm chasing.

Syd Barrett

I've got a bike. You can ride it if you like. It's got a basket, a bell that rings and things to make it look good. I'd give it to you if I could, but I borrowed it.

Swami Vivekananda

None deserves liberty who is not ready to give liberty

Swami Vivekananda

TO worship God even for the sake of salvation or any other reward is equally degenerate. Love knows no reward. Give your love unto to God, but do not ask anything in return even from Him through pray.

Swami Vivekananda

In the world take always the position of the giver. Give everything and look for no return. Give love, give help, give service, give any little thing you can, but keep out barter. Make no conditions and none will be imposed on you. Let us give out of our own bounty, just as God gives to us.

Swami Vivekananda

Thank God for giving you this world as a moral gymnasium to help your development, but never imagine you can help the world.

Swizz Beatz

I'm the last person that wants to give away music for free.

Swin Cash

To whom much is given, much is required.

Tony Robbins

I'm on a mission to help people grow and give. The more they grow the more they can give, the more life they build, the greater the quality of their life.

Tony Robbins

Remember, ask and you shall receive. If you ask a terrible question, you'll get a terrible answer. Your mental computer is ever ready to serve you, and whatever question you give it, it will surely come up with an answer.

Tony Robbins

You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want using whatever life gives you along the way.