Quotes and Sayings About Giving
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None of the prophets old, So lofty or so bold! No form of danger shakes his dauntless breast; In loneliness sublime He dares confront the time, And speak the truth, and give the world no rest No kingly threat can cowardize his breath, He with majestic step goes forth to meet his death.
-- Abraham Coles -
Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
-- Abraham Cowley -
The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
-- Abraham Cowley -
People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state--it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.... Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
In addition to the social pressures from the scientific community there is also at work a very human trait of individual scientist. I call it the law of the instrument , and it may be formulated as follows: Give a small boy a hammer, and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding. It comes as no particular surprise to discover that a scientist formulates problems in a way which requires for their solution just those techniques in which he himself is especially skilled.
-- Abraham Kaplan -
Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
-- Abraham Lincoln