Ginuwine Quotes

Yeah, I'm a giver. I've learned to be selective of the people in my world, because if I love someone, I will give them my blood, whatever they need. In doing so, one can end up with little left for themselves.

What I am trying to get across to you; is please take of yourselves and those that you love; because that is what we are hear for, that's all we got, and that is all we can take with us. Are you with me?

Just as women are afraid of receiving, men are afraid of giving.

For me, the best thing you can do as a man in loving someone is to do your best, go on that walk, and at the end of that walk be as much of a gentleman as you were in the beginning.

I would say, as I'm into my 30s, I have become a better friend because I don't need as much from my friends, and so when you don't need as much, you can be better at giving.

Love is not about what you want. It's about finding happiness for the one you love.

You are not a man until you give your love, truly and freely to a child. And you are not a good man until you earn the love, truly and freely, of a child in return.

You also know you’re surrendered when you don’t react to criticism and rush to defend yourself. Surrendered hearts show up best in relationships. You don’t edge others out, you don’t demand your rights, and you aren’t self-serving when you’re surrendered.

I think the most difficult love begins with one's self. How you treat yourself is something you bring to your relationships.

A friend's only gift is himself.

No man is a man unless to his woman he is a pioneer.

Real love is when you become selfless and you are more concerned about your mate's or children's egos than your own. You're now a giver instead of a taker.

When you care more if someone else lives than you do about yourself- is that what [love is]?

Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.

A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it in return from them.

As we give, so shall we receive. Service does not mean self-sacrifice. It means giving the needs of another person the same priority as our own.

LOVE is to stop making demands on people and give them room to grow.

You have to be a man before you can be a gentleman.

to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.

Men and boys, we show our manhood through the way we treat our women. Our wives, our sisters, our mothers.

Give a guy a girlfriend and a great job, he doesn’t need therapy.

My opinion is that we must lend ourselves to others and give ourselves only to ourselves. If my will happened to be prone to mortgage and attach itself, I would not last: I am too tender, both by nature and by practice.

Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing.

A man who will not die to save a woman is no man.

The more we have given to ourselves, the more we have to give to others. When we find that place within ourselves that is giving, we begin to create an outward flow. Giving to others comes not from a sense of sacrifice, self-righteousness, or spirituality, but for the pure pleasure of it, because it's fun. Giving can only come from a full, loving space.